[Jemian]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

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