Six Frenchmen handcuffed at US airport

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Six Frenchmen handcuffed at US airport

LOS ANGELES, May 22: Six French journalists were handcuffed, body searched and locked up before being kicked out of the United States after arriving in Los Angeles to cover a video games trade show with the wrong travel documents, a watchdog said on Wednesday.

A US immigration official confirmed that the journalists, who arrived in two groups on May 10 and May 11, had been searched, handcuffed and detained in a holding cell.

“These reporters were treated like criminals - subjected to several body searches, handcuffed and locked up,” Reporters Without Borders wrote to US Ambassador Howard Leach.-Reuters

I thought it was only “private companies” going against “French”, is INS/D of Homeland S also a “private concern”???

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A freedom of speech, journalism, right?

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hmm. It's really hard for me to understand why in today's world that people travelling to the US under the "wrong travel documents" might be treated as if they were criminals. NOT.

What does "wrong travel documents" mean anyway? Is "wrong" synonomous with "false?" Did they not have valid passports?

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Wrong documents more than likely meant that they didn't have their international driving licences with them!

Anything to screw the French I suppose.

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Anything to screw the French I suppose.
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The article is totally neutral on the gender of these French "people", but I think you do have a point. Americans can learn a thing or two from the French.

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Faisal

Unfortunately it's true.

I know from experience and fact that the Immmigration Dept could of easily fixed the document problem and let them go on with their business.

I don't think this is the last anti French tit for tat that we will see or hear about.

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se la vis

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c'est la vie,

I guess you majored in being an A-hole and minored in French.