Please read this

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...

returningfory2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

These stories usually have some non-trivial factor that is missing in the article. In this case there's a small visible red flag: the two tourists are British but traveling on B visas, rather than using the visa waiver program. Why? Well according the DHS they both have multi-year overstays in the US.

This doesn't justify the detention they went through. But it also means the lesson of the story is not "random tourists are being detained".

	▲	Symbiote an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The article clearly says only Bill had overstayed, not Karen. "Bill’s US visa had expired; Karen’s had not.". The B2 visa seems to be because the length of the trip exceeded the ESTA limit, "over two months", perhaps the original plan had been for a longer trip.

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everfrustrated 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Guardian is complete propaganda - without exaggeration every single article about this issue has been utter lies.

See this for more balance https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2025975226002018309

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psadauskas 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, because a DHS statement, published on Twitter of all places, isn't going to be propaganda. I can't think of any instances of them blatantly lying even against their own video evidence in, like, at least a week. /s

	▲	everfrustrated an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When a publication only publishes the "oppresseds" point of view without ever publishing the other view then it is by definition propaganda. The Guardian has been incredibly consistent in this over years now.
	▲	baal80spam 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's whataboutism. Doesn't change the fact that The Guardian _is_ propaganda.