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Australian woman who was detained and asked by a US border official if she had an abortion says she's shocked by the response: "a lot of people who've read this story are most horrified at that and I can see why"
Business Insider ^ | 16 July 2022 | Isabella Zavarise

Posted on 07/16/2022 1:04:39 AM PDT by zeestephen

Madolline Gourley was traveling from Australia to Canada when she was detained in Los Angeles...The 32-year-old was traveling from Brisbane, Australia, to Canada where she planned to house- and cat-sit in exchange for accommodations...During that time, a US border officer asked her repeatedly whether she was pregnant, and if she recently had an abortion.

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To: Crusher138
Whoops. I think you misread.

"In Australia, the anti-choice movement is funded by the US..."

The woman who made that statement is a leading advocate for abortion, and her claim about USA funding for pro-life organizations is backed up by no evidence.

21 posted on 07/16/2022 5:33:33 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Political Junkie Too

—> and was sent back

We have enough problems without importing more


22 posted on 07/16/2022 5:37:34 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: Political Junkie Too
According to the article, she was detained in Los Angeles Airport by immigration officials for not having the proper entry visa from Australia.

Airline officials will not allow someone to board if they don't have the correct papers. If a person flies to another country without the correct papers to enter that country, the airline has to take them back to their country of origin and the airline has to pay for the return flight. Therefore, airlines are quite diligent about this.

23 posted on 07/16/2022 5:53:13 AM PDT by Jemian (War Eagle! It is great to be an Auburn Tiger.)
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To: zeestephen

Why would she even encounter border patrol at an airport? Did she fly to Mexico and cross at the border? Apparently not, because she claims she was stopped in L.A. where she would have been given a free abortion, if she wanted one, as an illegal alien.


24 posted on 07/16/2022 6:22:57 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Jemian
Those were her words, that she didn't get the papers in time. Maybe someone in Australia made a mistake or cut her some slack believing that the American officials would be lax in their enforcement of the border?

-PJ

25 posted on 07/16/2022 8:09:26 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: zeestephen

I flat out don’t believe this. Especially for a border station in Los Angeles. This story is BS.


26 posted on 07/16/2022 8:11:16 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: zeestephen
Agree. If ANYTHING, they suspected her of ingesting drugs and might have asked if she were pregnant because they were going to X-ray her.. The abortion tie-in is pure leftist BS.
27 posted on 07/16/2022 8:12:56 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Think about foreign people trying to smuggle drugs into the US......INGESTING dozens of little bags of cocaine, etc.

If anything, they were thinking about X-raying her lying ass....


28 posted on 07/16/2022 8:16:00 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I call Au-bullshit in this story...


29 posted on 07/16/2022 8:16:52 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: FLT-bird

You’re letting the hair influence you.... she’d be average with brown hair, etc....


30 posted on 07/16/2022 8:18:40 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: LadyDoc

But big airports like LAX have a “sterile” international area where passengers in transit can go to their departing flights without entering the USA.

This is standard operating procedure all over the world - in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rome, the Gulf - everybody has an international transit area.

Except Dublin. When my daughter was flying Hamburg-Dublin-Bordeaux, returning from vacation to her job in France, she had to enter Ireland to get her flight to Bordeaux. I had given her a Streamlight flashlight with a rail attachment (but no rifle) for her stay in France, she brought it with her to Germany, but the Border Force in Ireland detained her because rail mounts are not permitted and they wanted to know where the rifle was.


31 posted on 07/16/2022 8:19:17 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: lee martell

She has the “glow” of a ring-in-the-nose leftist if you aks me...... Nothin special about her except that hair and the lingering thought if the carpet matches the drapes...


32 posted on 07/16/2022 8:20:35 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: zeestephen

Correct, bravo sierra.

HIPPA, federal employee, get a warrant.

5.56mm


33 posted on 07/16/2022 8:25:51 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: moovova

Indeed. The only reason I’d get somebody from another country to come over would be if she was a relative or otherwise well known to me.


34 posted on 07/16/2022 8:28:00 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: zeestephen

Right. Another Juicy Smellit tall tale.


35 posted on 07/16/2022 8:31:57 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: zeestephen

This is hilarious. Liars should learn to hone their craft.


36 posted on 07/16/2022 8:32:57 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Gaffer

With young women -— More and more nose rings these days. Studs too in the nose. All in gold or more likely cheap gold plating. Better than extensive tattoos, because piercings are far less permanent.


37 posted on 07/16/2022 8:33:57 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Yeah...okay...but stupid, still.... if anything put it on the ear or something.... You gotta blow your nose sometime...


38 posted on 07/16/2022 8:37:07 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Gaffer

“Think about foreign people trying to smuggle drugs into the US......INGESTING dozens of little bags of cocaine, etc.”

Why bother smuggling drugs that way when the borders are wide open and people caught with 50 pounds of meth, or 150,000 fentanyl pills are released from custody? This is insanity.


39 posted on 07/16/2022 8:39:52 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

Have you ever watched ANY of the multiple “To Catch a Smuggler” series from multiple cities the world over? If you happen to have a Hulu subscription you can see them for Madrid, Columbia, Brazil, Italy, the US and others. It’s an ongoing battle which we are losing....


40 posted on 07/16/2022 8:48:41 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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