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Australian teen strip-searched and held in US jail for 10 days after being denied common visa waiver
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/05/australian-teen-strip-searched-and-held-in-us-jail-for-10-days-after-being-denied-common-visa-waiverAustralian teen strip-searched and held in US jail for 10 days after being denied common visa waiver
Cameron Carter, 19, who had never travelled on a plane before, was left unable to contact his family throughout ordeal
Calla Wahlquist
Sun 4 Sep 2022 13.30 EDT
An Australian teenager who travelled to the US for a job interview was strip-searched and held in a federal prison for 10 days, including eight confined to his cell, after he was deemed ineligible for a common holiday travel program.
The 19-year-old, who had never travelled on a plane before, was denied contact with his family in Australia throughout the ordeal. He was supposed to be sent back to Australia after two days but was held for another eight so he could go before a judge, after an immigration officer said he had resisted returning to Australia.
When he was finally placed on a flight to Australia, it landed in Melbourne, more than 750km from his home in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Cameron Carter flew into Honolulu on a Jetstar flight from Sydney on 15 August. He was intending to catch three domestic flights to reach the small town of Powell, Wyoming, to visit a friend and interview for a potential job as a first-year mechanic. He had a return flight to Australia booked for 14 October and $1,400 in his bank account – less than he intended to travel with, after his original return flight was cancelled and he had to rebook, but enough to support himself because he would be staying with friends.
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Cameron Carter, 19, who had never travelled on a plane before, was left unable to contact his family throughout ordeal
Calla Wahlquist
Sun 4 Sep 2022 13.30 EDT
An Australian teenager who travelled to the US for a job interview was strip-searched and held in a federal prison for 10 days, including eight confined to his cell, after he was deemed ineligible for a common holiday travel program.
The 19-year-old, who had never travelled on a plane before, was denied contact with his family in Australia throughout the ordeal. He was supposed to be sent back to Australia after two days but was held for another eight so he could go before a judge, after an immigration officer said he had resisted returning to Australia.
When he was finally placed on a flight to Australia, it landed in Melbourne, more than 750km from his home in Bathurst, New South Wales.
Cameron Carter flew into Honolulu on a Jetstar flight from Sydney on 15 August. He was intending to catch three domestic flights to reach the small town of Powell, Wyoming, to visit a friend and interview for a potential job as a first-year mechanic. He had a return flight to Australia booked for 14 October and $1,400 in his bank account – less than he intended to travel with, after his original return flight was cancelled and he had to rebook, but enough to support himself because he would be staying with friends.
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