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Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face
 
He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Their romance, sparked by a 2006 meeting in a supermarket in Rome, soon brought the Italian, Domenico Salerno, on frequent visits to Alexandria, Va., where he was welcomed like a favorite son by the parents and neighbors of his girlfriend, Caitlin Cooper.

But on April 29, when Mr. Salerno, 35, presented his passport at Washington Dulles International Airport, a Customs and Border Protection agent refused to let him into the United States. And after hours of questioning, agents would not let him travel back to Rome, either; over his protests in fractured English, he said, they insisted that he had expressed a fear of returning to Italy and had asked for asylum.

Ms. Cooper, 23, who had promised to show her boyfriend another side of her country on this visit — meaning Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon — eventually learned that he had been sent in shackles to a rural Virginia jail. And there he remained for more than 10 days, locked up without charges or legal recourse while Ms. Cooper, her parents and their well-connected neighbors tried everything to get him out.
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After being turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he was taken to the Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover, Va., where he ended up in a barracks with 75 other men, including asylum-seekers who told him they had been waiting a year.

Ten days after he landed in Washington, Mr. Salerno was still incarcerated, despite efforts by Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia, and two former immigration prosecutors hired by the Coopers.
“He’s just really scared,” Ms. Cooper said in an interview last Thursday. “He asked me if Virginia has the death penalty.”

Luis Paoli, a lawyer hired by the Coopers, said there was no limit on detention while waiting for an asylum interview. But even after officials agreed the asylum issue had been a mistake, Mr. Salerno was not released.

“Now an innocent European, who has never broken any laws, committed any crimes, or overstayed his visa, is being held in a county jail,” Ms. Cooper wrote in an e-mail message to The New York Times last Wednesday, prompting a reporter’s inquiries.

Less than 24 hours later, immigration officials intervened and arranged to deliver Mr. Salerno to Dulles, where last Friday he flew to Rome. Ms. Cooper, who said she was now considering moving to Italy, was by his side.

singdaw - Just watch.  Thanks to your paraphrasing, someone's going to get confused and think I'm not going to Issaquah at all.

Good Afternoon!  (I'm going ahead and starting to adjust back to EST time.)

Breakfast has been consumed.  Plane food and snacks have been bought.  And now I just need to finish my last bit of packing.  So.. Until NYC...

-I shall wave as I pass over those who I fly over.

Laters...

Just don't mention my name in Sheboygan.

***SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES***[/size][/color]

to DR JoseSPiano!![/size][/color]

Oh, DR dB - you know just what to say to have me all a-flutter!  

Or too latex.

DR Jane, those pictures are stunning!    

Thank you.  We all wish we had remembered our cameras.  It was exciting as the wild flowers have begun to bloom & there was a lovely variety of them.  We also saw a hummingbird with a flash of ruby.  Someone said it was a red-headed something I don't remember.  Maybe DR Laura knows.

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