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CNN
05-03-2025
- CNN
A German tattoo artist came to the US for a 3-week trip. She's now been in ICE detention for over a month
A German tattoo artist who tried to enter the United States from Mexico through the San Diego border has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for over a month, according to a friend who witnessed her being detained. Jessica Brösche, a Berlin-based tattoo artist, had been vacationing in Mexico when she decided to travel to the US from Tijuana with an American friend, Nikita Lofving. But at the San Ysidro port of entry immigration authorities took Brösche into custody. 'They took her right in front of me as we were walking over,' Lofving, a clothing designer based in Los Angeles, told CNN. 'Two hours passed, and then she called me and said, 'Hey, I'm gonna get deported back to Germany. I'll call you from Germany in a couple of days.'' The call was on January 25. Brösche has been in detention ever since, half a month past when she originally hoped to leave the US on February 15, Lofving says. According to the ICE Detainee Locator, Brösche is currently in the Otay Mesa Detention Facility, in San Diego County, while she awaits deportation. CNN reached out to both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ask why she was detained. A spokesperson from CBP told CNN affiliate KGTV that if a foreign national denied admission to the US is unable to book travel back to their country of origin 'he or she will be turned over to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).' In a statement to KGTV, an ICE spokesperson wrote that Brösche is in detention due 'to the violation of the terms and conditions of her admission.' Lovfing told CNN that her German friend was joining her in Los Angeles to tattoo her. She speculated that immigration officials may have misinterpreted Brösche's statements about the project as a declaration that she'd come to the US to work. 'I mean, she was coming to work, but not really for money,' Lofving said. 'We have an agreement between artists. She's one of my best friends. We've been working on this tattoo project on my body for the last five or six years, and in exchange, I make clothes for her.' In a phone interview with KGTV last month, Brösche said that she had been kept in 'horrible' solitary confinement for eight days when she entered US custody. 'I just want to get home, you know? I'm really desperate,' Brösche told KGTV from Otay Mesa. 'I don't really understand why it's taking so long to get back to Germany.' Lofving said that Brösche's friends and family are hoping that she'll be out of detention and on a flight back to Germany on March 11, and that her mother bought her a plane ticket home. They aren't sure whether ICE will let her out by then, however. 'We sent (Brösche) back the information for the tickets, and she told her ICE agent,' Lofving continued, saying the ICE agent had said, 'No, you have to get the ticket approved before you buy it.' A spokesperson from the German Consulate in LA told CNN in an email that they are 'aware of the case and in close contact about it with the relevant US authorities as well as with family and close friends of the person concerned.' CoreCivic, the private prison company that operates Otay Mesa, told CNN that the company 'does not know the circumstances of individuals when they are placed in our facilities.' 'Our responsibility is to care for each person respectfully and humanely while they receive the legal due process that they are entitled to,' said spokesperson Ryan Gustin. Jeff Joseph, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told CNN that Brösche's case is 'fairly unusual.' Brösche, who entered the US via the Visa Waiver Program agreement that the US has with Germany and 40 other countries, would usually have been deported immediately rather than sit in detention for over a month, Joseph said. By entering on the waiver program, a tourist waives their right to any kind of litigation, Joseph explained. But normally, a tourist denied entry to the US would be allowed to withdraw their application for admission. 'Instead of being subjected to deportation proceedings, they're allowed to kind of get back on the airplane and turn around and go home, and that does not appear to have happened in this case,' Joseph continued. In any case, Joseph said that Brösche's extended stay in Otay Mesa is 'extremely concerning.'
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Yahoo
A German tattoo artist came to the US for a 3-week trip. She's now been in ICE detention for over a month
A German tattoo artist who tried to enter the United States from Mexico through the San Diego border has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for over a month, according to a friend who witnessed her being detained. Jessica Brösche, a Berlin-based tattoo artist, had been vacationing in Mexico when she decided to travel to the US from Tijuana with an American friend, Nikita Lofving. But at the San Ysidro port of entry immigration authorities took Brösche into custody. 'They took her right in front of me as we were walking over,' Lofving, a clothing designer based in Los Angeles, told CNN. 'Two hours passed, and then she called me and said, 'Hey, I'm gonna get deported back to Germany. I'll call you from Germany in a couple of days.'' The call was on January 25. Brösche has been in detention ever since, half a month past when she originally hoped to leave the US on February 15, Lofving says. According to the ICE Detainee Locator, Brösche is currently in the Otay Mesa Detention Facility, in San Diego County, while she awaits deportation. CNN reached out to both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ask why she was detained. A spokesperson from CBP told CNN affiliate KGTV that if a foreign national denied admission to the US is unable to book travel back to their country of origin 'he or she will be turned over to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).' In a statement to KGTV, an ICE spokesperson wrote that Brösche is in detention due 'to the violation of the terms and conditions of her admission.' Lovfing told CNN that her German friend was joining her in Los Angeles to tattoo her. She speculated that immigration officials may have misinterpreted Brösche's statements about the project as a declaration that she'd come to the US to work. 'I mean, she was coming to work, but not really for money,' Lofving said. 'We have an agreement between artists. She's one of my best friends. We've been working on this tattoo project on my body for the last five or six years, and in exchange, I make clothes for her.' In a phone interview with KGTV last month, Brösche said that she had been kept in 'horrible' solitary confinement for eight days when she entered US custody. 'I just want to get home, you know? I'm really desperate,' Brösche told KGTV from Otay Mesa. 'I don't really understand why it's taking so long to get back to Germany.' Lofving said that Brösche's friends and family are hoping that she'll be out of detention and on a flight back to Germany on March 11, and that her mother bought her a plane ticket home. They aren't sure whether ICE will let her out by then, however. 'We sent (Brösche) back the information for the tickets, and she told her ICE agent,' Lofving continued, saying the ICE agent had said, 'No, you have to get the ticket approved before you buy it.' A spokesperson from the German Consulate in LA told CNN in an email that they are 'aware of the case and in close contact about it with the relevant US authorities as well as with family and close friends of the person concerned.' CoreCivic, the private prison company that operates Otay Mesa, told CNN that the company 'does not know the circumstances of individuals when they are placed in our facilities.' 'Our responsibility is to care for each person respectfully and humanely while they receive the legal due process that they are entitled to,' said spokesperson Ryan Gustin. Jeff Joseph, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told CNN that Brösche's case is 'fairly unusual.' Brösche, who entered the US via the Visa Waiver Program agreement that the US has with Germany and 40 other countries, would usually have been deported immediately rather than sit in detention for over a month, Joseph said. By entering on the waiver program, a tourist waives their right to any kind of litigation, Joseph explained. But normally, a tourist denied entry to the US would be allowed to withdraw their application for admission. 'Instead of being subjected to deportation proceedings, they're allowed to kind of get back on the airplane and turn around and go home, and that does not appear to have happened in this case,' Joseph continued. In any case, Joseph said that Brösche's extended stay in Otay Mesa is 'extremely concerning.'
CNN
05-03-2025
- CNN
A German tattoo artist came to the US for a 3-week trip. She's now been in ICE detention for over a month
A German tattoo artist who tried to enter the United States from Mexico through the San Diego border has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for over a month, according to a friend who witnessed her being detained. Jessica Brösche, a Berlin-based tattoo artist, had been vacationing in Mexico when she decided to travel to the US from Tijuana with an American friend, Nikita Lofving. But at the San Ysidro port of entry immigration authorities took Brösche into custody. 'They took her right in front of me as we were walking over,' Lofving, a clothing designer based in Los Angeles, told CNN. 'Two hours passed, and then she called me and said, 'Hey, I'm gonna get deported back to Germany. I'll call you from Germany in a couple of days.'' The call was on January 25. Brösche has been in detention ever since, half a month past when she originally hoped to leave the US on February 15, Lofving says. According to the ICE Detainee Locator, Brösche is currently in the Otay Mesa Detention Facility, in San Diego County, while she awaits deportation. CNN reached out to both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to ask why she was detained. A spokesperson from CBP told CNN affiliate KGTV that if a foreign national denied admission to the US is unable to book travel back to their country of origin 'he or she will be turned over to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).' In a statement to KGTV, an ICE spokesperson wrote that Brösche is in detention due 'to the violation of the terms and conditions of her admission.' Lovfing told CNN that her German friend was joining her in Los Angeles to tattoo her. She speculated that immigration officials may have misinterpreted Brösche's statements about the project as a declaration that she'd come to the US to work. 'I mean, she was coming to work, but not really for money,' Lofving said. 'We have an agreement between artists. She's one of my best friends. We've been working on this tattoo project on my body for the last five or six years, and in exchange, I make clothes for her.' In a phone interview with KGTV last month, Brösche said that she had been kept in 'horrible' solitary confinement for eight days when she entered US custody. 'I just want to get home, you know? I'm really desperate,' Brösche told KGTV from Otay Mesa. 'I don't really understand why it's taking so long to get back to Germany.' Lofving said that Brösche's friends and family are hoping that she'll be out of detention and on a flight back to Germany on March 11, and that her mother bought her a plane ticket home. They aren't sure whether ICE will let her out by then, however. 'We sent (Brösche) back the information for the tickets, and she told her ICE agent,' Lofving continued, saying the ICE agent had said, 'No, you have to get the ticket approved before you buy it.' A spokesperson from the German Consulate in LA told CNN in an email that they are 'aware of the case and in close contact about it with the relevant US authorities as well as with family and close friends of the person concerned.' CoreCivic, the private prison company that operates Otay Mesa, told CNN that the company 'does not know the circumstances of individuals when they are placed in our facilities.' 'Our responsibility is to care for each person respectfully and humanely while they receive the legal due process that they are entitled to,' said spokesperson Ryan Gustin. Jeff Joseph, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told CNN that Brösche's case is 'fairly unusual.' Brösche, who entered the US via the Visa Waiver Program agreement that the US has with Germany and 40 other countries, would usually have been deported immediately rather than sit in detention for over a month, Joseph said. By entering on the waiver program, a tourist waives their right to any kind of litigation, Joseph explained. But normally, a tourist denied entry to the US would be allowed to withdraw their application for admission. 'Instead of being subjected to deportation proceedings, they're allowed to kind of get back on the airplane and turn around and go home, and that does not appear to have happened in this case,' Joseph continued. In any case, Joseph said that Brösche's extended stay in Otay Mesa is 'extremely concerning.'
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- General
- Yahoo
What is a black box on a plane? What to know after AA Flight 5342 crash with helicopter
As the recovery operation continued Thursday after a commercial airliner collided with an Army helicopter near the nation's capital, federal aviation officials said they had not yet recovered the black boxes from the aircrafts. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the lead agency handling the deadly crash, held a briefing Thursday afternoon. NTSB member Todd Inman said "We feel comfortable and confident" that the boxes would be recovered. The fatal crash took place just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when American Airlines Flight 5342 attempted to land and collided in midair with a Black Hawk trying to land at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia. Flight 5342 took off from Wichita, Kansas, at 5:18 p.m. CST and was set to land at DCA at 9:03 p.m. ET, but dropped out of the air on approach at about 8:48 p.m., according to aircraft tracking site FlightAware. Live updates: 'We will find out what happened,' NTSB vows after tragic midair collision The passenger plane with 64 people aboard then fell into the icy waters of the Potomac River. The Black Hawk helicopter carried three people. All aboard both aircraft are feared dead, officials said during Thursday morning news conferences. Here's what to know: A black box is a flight data recorder that collects information on communications involving pilots in cockpits and how the aircraft systems perform in-flight. It is designed to be practically indestructible. Large commercial aircraft and some smaller commercial, corporate, and private aircrafts are required by the Federal Aviation Administration to be equipped with two black boxes, according to the NTSB. The first, called the Cockpit Voice Recorder, records radio transmissions and sounds in the cockpit including pilots' voices and engine noise, according to the federal agency. The second is called a Flight Data Recorder, which monitors parameters such as altitude, airspeed, and heading. The recorders are installed to help reconstruct precisely what happened leading up to a crash. A black box is typically found in the aircraft's rear. Each box is equipped with an Underwater Locator Beacon in the event of an overwater crash, according to NTSB. Dubbed a "pinger", the device is activated when the recorder is submerged in water, according to a NTSB online fact sheet. " "It transmits an acoustical signal on 37.5 KHz that can be detected with a special receiver," the sheet reads. "The beacon can transmit from depths down to 14,000 feet." If a black box is recovered from the water, it is immersed in fresh, clean water to prevent deposits such as salt or minerals from drying out within the device, said John Cox, a retired airline captain with former US Airways. "When the technicians at the laboratory are ready to download the data, they take the recorder out of the freshwater bath, carefully open it and dry any sections that have been exposed to water," according to Cox, who owns the aviation safety consulting company, Safety Operating Systems. "They then download the data into special computers that can read the information." It was not immediately known whether divers had located the black boxes for either AA Flight 5342 or the military's Black Hawk that both crashed. Once rescue efforts are concluded, the NTSB told USA TODAY that locating the black box will be one of federal officials' main priorities. Contributing: Reuters, Kinsey Crowley; USA TODAY Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@ and follow her on X @nataliealund. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Has AA Flight 5342's black box been found? What to know after crash
