“Don’t go [to the United States] – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.”

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice