{"id":1838,"date":"2003-10-13T09:33:53","date_gmt":"2003-10-13T23:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/welcome-to-america-now-go-home\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:32:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:32:42","slug":"welcome-to-america-now-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/13\/welcome-to-america-now-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to America &#8212; now go home."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  The love story of Trevor Hughes and his fiancee began in an elementary school in the Himalayan foothills.<\/p>\n<p>  They were &#8220;global nomads.&#8221; He was a diplomat&#8217;s son. She the daughter of missionaries. They lived in Asia, attended school together, fell in love and want to get married in June.<\/p>\n<p>  But when Hughes&#8217; fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed&#8211;even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.<\/p>\n<p>  Then, after 20 hours without food, she was put on a plane and shipped back to Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;This isn&#8217;t the America I fought for,&#8221; said Hughes, who served in the Navy and U.S. diplomatic corps. &#8220;You don&#8217;t expect that from a great country like ours.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/landofthefree.blogspot.com\/2003_10_12_landofthefree_archive.html#106596676018742265\" title=\"Land of the Free?\">Land of the Free?: Turned away at the border<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2003_10_01_archive.html#106597933812142931\" title=\"Homeland Security deports fiancee of Homeland Security staffer\">Cory Doctorow<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But when Hughes&#8217; fiancee, a German national, tried to visit him on a six-month tourist visa Monday, she was detained in Atlanta, handcuffed, jailed&#8211;even stripped of her diamond engagement ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}