Trump's ICE Goons Shackled and Threw a British Grandma on a Tourist Visa in Their Gulag for SIX WEEKS!

WTF? Trump's ICE goons shackled and threw a British grandma on a tourist visa in their gulag for SIX WEEKS!

Karen Newton, a 65-year-old grandmother from Hertfordshire, England with a clean record and a valid B2 tourist visa, thought she was heading for a dream two-month road trip through four Western states and Canada with her husband Bill.

What she got instead was a nightmare: six weeks in ICE detention after being shackled, sleeping on the floor, and locked in a windowless cell with no end date in sight.

The ordeal began September 26, 2025, when the couple was turned back at the Canadian border due to Bill’s expired visa. U.S. officials at the Montana crossing decided Karen was “guilty by association” for helping him pack – a ridiculous stretch – which nonetheless led to both being handcuffed, waist-chained, and ankle-shackled.

Karen spent three days on mats under foil blankets at Sweetgrass border station, then endured a 12-hour overnight van ride to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.

“It’s called a detention facility, but it’s really a prison,” she said. Lights always on, no windows, guards everywhere, everything bolted down. She slept on the floor for a month because she was assigned a top bunk she couldn’t climb up to.

She lost all sense of time, suffered pain and constipation from fear of using watched toilets, and watched other detainees – many long-term U.S. residents with families – cry over separations from children.

Guards repeatedly told Karen ICE agents get bonuses per detention. She believes the quotas and incentives drove the cruelty: “There is all the incentive in the world to find a reason – any reason – not to let someone go.”

She eventually signed for “self-removal” under Project Homecoming to get out faster, waiving rights to a judge and accepting a potential 10-year U.S. ban.

Karen’s story isn’t isolated. Since Trump’s inauguration, international travelers with valid documents have been swept up in ICE’s aggressive enforcement. The message is chilling: if it can happen to a white, middle-aged British grandmother on a holiday, it can happen to anyone. No criminal record, no illegal entry, no threat – just a system incentivized to detain first and ask questions never.

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