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Lee Heidhues 3.13.2025
This is the Nazi felon Donald Trump Amerika in 2025. And it’s only going to get worse.
Excerpted from The Daily Mail UK 3.5.2025
A German tattoo artist says she was locked up in solitary confinement after she was detained 46 days while trying to walk through a checkpoint on the southern border.
‘After nine days, she said she went so insane that she started punching the walls and then she’s got blood on her knuckles.’
Jessica Brösche, 26, was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection as she tried to enter the country through San Diego, from Tijuana, on January 25th, ABC10 reported.
‘I just want to get home, you know? I’m really desperate,’ she told ABC 10.
Her detainment included a ‘horrible’ eight days in solitary confinement, she added.
However, the company that owns the detention center – CoreCivic – told the outlet Brösche ‘was not in any kind of restrictive housing for eight days.’
But Brösche insisted the alleged solitary confinement was ‘like a horror movie.’
‘They were screaming in all different rooms,’ Lofving said.
Lofving said she did not know where her friend was taken until she pleaded for help online and used the the federal Detainee Locator website.
She also claimed that a psychologist tried to prescribe Brösche anti-psychotic medicine, which she has refused to take.
Brösche was traveling with her American friend Nikita Lofving as a tourist under the ESTA visa waiver program. The two had met in Tijuana and were carrying tattooing equipment.
Immigration officials reportedly accused Brösche of working in the US the last time she entered the country with the ESTA program, an electronic system that determines whether someone is eligible to enter the US without a visa.
ESTAs are only intended for tourists and people are not allowed to work in the US while visiting on one.
Lofving told the outlet she asked officials if Brösche could be sent back to Mexico, but they said she would be deported to Germany in three to five days because she could not offer proof of residence in the Latin American country.
But Brösche says she spent days in a cell at the San Diego border before she was taken into ICE custody and brought to the the Otay Mesa Detention Center, where she was held for more than a month.
Chained, detained for weeks and eventually deported, two German tourists trying to enter the United States were recently tangled in a system responding to President Trump’s push to sharply restrict entry and deport people en masse.
The cases of Jessica Brösche, held for 46 days, and Lucas Sielaff, held for 16, and accounts of their rough handling by immigration officers, have grabbed headlines in Germany as a sign of what being caught on the wrong side of the White House’s immigration policy could mean for European travelers. New York Times 3.13.2025
Top photo: German tattoo artist Jessica Brosche incarcerated 46 days.
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