BBC News: British holidaymakers 'traumatised' after arrest at US border
"A British couple say they have been detained in the US after accidentally crossing the border from Canada.
David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, say they are being held in Pennsylvania with their three-month-old baby and are "traumatised".
They say they were driving with family members on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered onto a small road.
A police officer then pulled them over, told them they were in the US state of Washington and arrested them....
They were stopped by a police officer who did not read them their rights, nor allow them to "simply turn around" and go back to Canada, according to the complaint.
At first the young family say they were separated - with David Connors being held in a male-only cell, and Eileen Connors and their infant son in a women's cell.
Later, the husband was taken to a detention centre in Tacoma, Washington, while his wife and their baby son were taken to a budget hotel near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the complaint.
The following morning they say they were driven to the airport, which raised their hopes that they were being flown back to Canada or the UK.
"But that was not the case," Eileen Connors says in the sworn statement. Instead, they were flown to Pennsylvania - on the other side of the country.
They were taken on 5 October to Berks Family Residential Center (BFRC), one of three immigration detention centres in the US that can accommodate families...
he couple's sworn statement says the cells are "frigid", and staff have refused to turn the heating on until the end of next month.
"When I ask how I am supposed to keep my baby warm in this horrible cold, all they tell me is to put a hat on him," Mrs Connors said in the statement.
"My baby can't wear a hat all the time, he feels uncomfortable with hats and mittens and starts to cry."
Staff, she added, confiscated her son's formula for three days, as well as his teething powder, and would only provide "disgusting" blankets that smelled "like a dead dog".
They say the baby's skin is now rough and blotchy and he appears to have an eye infection."
Clearly the terrorist threat to the US has escalated from French joggers straying unknowingly over unmarked borders...
"A British couple say they have been detained in the US after accidentally crossing the border from Canada.
David Connors, 30, and his wife Eileen, 24, say they are being held in Pennsylvania with their three-month-old baby and are "traumatised".
They say they were driving with family members on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered onto a small road.
A police officer then pulled them over, told them they were in the US state of Washington and arrested them....
They were stopped by a police officer who did not read them their rights, nor allow them to "simply turn around" and go back to Canada, according to the complaint.
At first the young family say they were separated - with David Connors being held in a male-only cell, and Eileen Connors and their infant son in a women's cell.
Later, the husband was taken to a detention centre in Tacoma, Washington, while his wife and their baby son were taken to a budget hotel near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the complaint.
The following morning they say they were driven to the airport, which raised their hopes that they were being flown back to Canada or the UK.
"But that was not the case," Eileen Connors says in the sworn statement. Instead, they were flown to Pennsylvania - on the other side of the country.
They were taken on 5 October to Berks Family Residential Center (BFRC), one of three immigration detention centres in the US that can accommodate families...
he couple's sworn statement says the cells are "frigid", and staff have refused to turn the heating on until the end of next month.
"When I ask how I am supposed to keep my baby warm in this horrible cold, all they tell me is to put a hat on him," Mrs Connors said in the statement.
"My baby can't wear a hat all the time, he feels uncomfortable with hats and mittens and starts to cry."
Staff, she added, confiscated her son's formula for three days, as well as his teething powder, and would only provide "disgusting" blankets that smelled "like a dead dog".
They say the baby's skin is now rough and blotchy and he appears to have an eye infection."
Clearly the terrorist threat to the US has escalated from French joggers straying unknowingly over unmarked borders...
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