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  • It seems like a bit of a stretch to frame two teenagers wishing to go island-hopping as part of their post-graduation world trip as “intending to work” 😜

    Deportation appears to be about as appropriate here as sending the SWAT team after someone who dropped a candy wrapper.

    • 1 year

      It seems like themselves admitted that they intended to work?

      • 1 year

        They did not. It was put into the interrogation documents without their knowledge.

      • 1 year

        Work for their foreign clients with foreign companies. Remote work. While they were backpacking.

        • Still Tax fraud and visa fraud. Works like this in most countries.

          Not that I agree with these extreme measures. Most of Europe doesn’t care but still: as ilegal in the US as it would be if an American tourist did the same in Germany.

          • 1 year

            Like if I work for Intel and I’m on travel visa, I can’t answer some emails or do a zoom meet with my team for updates or something?

            • No, you can’t. Simple as that. Same with helping someone carry some boxes because you’re just a cool dude.

              I don’t make the rules, I only know them 😅

        • 1 year

          I don’t know but that’s what the post you were replying to stated and you just ignored it.

          • I don’t know but that’s what the post you were replying to stated and you just ignored it.

            I do tend to ignore posts that come without references or explanations, that’s true.
            But that’s beside the point I was raising - I’ll rephrase: I find it hard to believe that there is anything two Middle European kids vacationing in Hawaii could ever do to even remotely approach any sane definition of ‘working without a permit’ to warrant immediate deportation. Whether they did or didn’t actually intend to defraud the Federal Government over 20$ in beach bar tip money taxes doesn’t really factor into that argument, does it?