{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13141,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/landofthefree.blogspot.com\\\/2003_10_12_landofthefree_archive.html#106596676018742265&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220306001814\\\/http:\\\/\\\/landofthefree.blogspot.com\\\/2003_10_12_landofthefree_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:36:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 06:36:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13142,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2003_10_01_archive.html#106597933812142931&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}