German teens who ‘intended to work’ were denied entry to US for traveling ‘under false pretenses’: Customs
nypost.com
Maria Lepere and Charlotte Pohl, 18 and 19, arrived in Hawaii on March 18 with short-term travel permits ahead of weeks-long US trip.

The teens claimed CBP targeted them because they hadn’t booked hotels for their entire stay in Hawaii.

“They found it suspicious that we hadn’t fully booked our accommodations for the entire five weeks in Hawaii,” Pohl said. “We wanted to travel spontaneously. Just like we had done in Thailand and New Zealand.”

  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
    52·
    3 months ago

    Interestingly.as far as I’m aware Germans Italians were one of the last “ethnicities” to be considered white, alongside the Irish.

    Edit: Originally said Germans, left the comment because it’s more about how whiteness is more about in group acceptance than actual skin tone.

    • superniceperson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      You’re thinking of Italians. While some ‘german’ ethnicities were indeed swarthy whites along side Nordic countries in the 1700s, nearly all were included in the white umbrella by the start of the 1800s. Italians, Irish, and Mediterranean whites took well into the 20th century to be white.