By ICE arrested German tourist says that she spent a week in solitary confinement

Otay Mesa, California – a German tourist is fighting to be released from an immigration center after she was denied the entry at the border between San Diego and ICE was detained last month.

“I just want to come home, do you know? I am really desperate, ”Jessica Brösche told Team 10 in a telephone interview from detention.

The German tattoo artist arrested the US -customs and border protection after trying to enter San Diego on January 25th in San Diego^TH by Tijuana with her American best friend. The two traveled with tattoo equipment.

“I am how, can you send her to Mexico? You like, no, she has no legal residence residence. We will deport them to Germany. She will call you in three to five days, ”said Nikita Lofving, who lives in Los Angeles and went across the border with Brösche.

When the two were introduced for inspection, Lofving said that a customs officer marked a problem with Brösche who entered the United States with the ESTA -VISA reference program.

“Finally, after two hours I get a call from Jessica … said: ‘Hey, they accuse me that I last worked when I came to my ESTA and they deport me to Germany.”

Brösche told Team 10 that she spent days in a cell on the border between San Diego before he was detained by ice. The agency then brought them to the Otay Mesa Internet camp, where it has been for over a month.

She said she spent eight brutal days in the facility in the facility.

“It was terrible. As if it were really terrible, ”she said in a telephone interview on Team 10 Investigative Reporter Austin Grabish.

Lofving tried to get help from the German consulate in Los Angeles and said she felt hopelessly when her friend was in isolation without a blanket or pillow.

“She says it was like a horror film. They screamed in all rooms. After nine days, she said she was so crazy that she started beating the walls and then she had blood on her ankles, ”said Lofving.

The employees of the private detention center then won a psychologist, said Lofving.

“This psychologist tries to prescribe their antipsychotic medicine. She rejects medicine. “She says: ‘I don’t want medicine. I either want to either be deported and go home or just not be alone in one room because this is not cool. “

Lofving, who lived together with Brösche in Berlin, has built up posters near the German consulate in Los Angeles, who are now saying free Jessy!

The internment middle center refutes the sole proprietorship

After this story had been released, Corecivic, the company that belongs to the Otay Mesa Detention Center, told Team 10 that Brösche was “in no kind of restrictive living space for eight days”.

Brian Todd, spokesman for Corecivic, said that the company sometimes used a restrictive living space for observing medical and mental health, protective custody or purposes.

“Lonely restriction, whether as a term or in practice, there are no of the facilities that we operate,” said Todd.

Immigration lawyer calls the case unusual

The spokesman for the US customs and border protection, Antonio Baños Arauz, said the concerns about privacy prevent the agency from discussing a specific case.

He explained if a foreign citizen is inadmissible for the United States and does not provide evidence of the residence in Mexico. CBP will give the person the opportunity to book travel back to their home country.

“If the foreign citizen is not able, he or she will be handed over to the care of immigration and customs authorities (ICE),” said Arauz.

Tammy Lin, immigration lawyer of San Diego, said it was unusual that Brösche was arrested.

“Usually you will ask the person, would you like to withdraw the approval? You say yes, then you will simply publish them on the way. “

She said this was the second German citizen.

“She had all of her documents, everything. They did not hold them up, they let them go, and then they tried again and they left them back in. “

ICE says tourist has violated “admission conditions”

Lin said she was aware of other foreigners who have problems in the United States

“I know that many people were rejected in the first few weeks of the new presidency, which is usually not. They had permission to travel back and forth without any problems. “

Brösche has been released from solitary confinement since then and said that she was in a much better mood, but would like to desperately return to Europe.

“I don’t really understand why it takes so long to return to Germany.”

The ICE spokeswoman Sandra Grisolia said in a statement on Friday evening that Brösche’s detention was “with the violation of the conditions of her approval”.

“All extraterrestrials that violate the US immigration law can be given arrest, imprisonment and, if they are derived from the final arrangement, regardless of nationality due to the final order,” she said.

The German consulate is aware of its case and is in close contact with the US authorities and the family of Brösche, said Danijel Skrelja, the deputy consul general in a statement.