Reply #25: You don't seem to get it

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EVERY GERMAN can enter the US REGARDLESS of their occupation.

A professional journalist "ON CONTRACT" cannot WORK as such in the US without a visa. So all that was needed by US immigration to be fair and square about the affair was to tell her she can't do the work she was planning to do. No need for endless questioning, no need whatsoever to deny entry, it's all bullshit.

As to your other questions, I already cited several times the article at telepolis.de. It is an online news journal associated with the most respected publishing house for IT journals in Germany, Heise Verlag (c't). She publishes articles at Telepolis, she talked to the writer of the story, she produced the interview protocol, she produced the email from the consulate. There is no reason whatsoever for me to doubt the veracity of that story, Telepolis is reliable and well-known, I've been reading them for many years.

According to what she says in the article, she was not allowed to contact the German consulate while in Washington (wouldn't be the first time something like that happens, BTW). And no, even though she has a second residence in Argentina, she did not enter from Buenos Aires, nor was she sent back to Buenos Aires, she came from Germany where her permanent residence is. Where and when did she ever change her story? There is no contradiction to what AP reported, just additions they didn't know or left out. As to the permission from the National Archives, I already mentioned that she had the applications with her and that they were xeroxed, presumably as proof for her intention to "work".