‘She Is Not Hannibal’: Dad Details Horrific Way British Backpacker Daughter Was Treated By ICE
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Paul Burke detailed the "punitive" way his daughter Rebecca was treated prior to her deportation.
The father of a British backpacker who was detained for 19 days by U.S. immigration officials at the U.S.-Canada border has slammed the “punitive treatment” his daughter endured before being deported.
Rebecca Burke, 28, from Wales, was taken from the detention facility to the airport ready for her deportation in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs, her father, Paul Burke, told the BBC on Thursday. Watch the interview here.
“She is not Hannibal Lecter,” he said of his daughter, comparing the restraint measures used on her to those used on the fictional cannibalistic serial killer played by Anthony Hopkins in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Burke also described how his daughter struggled to walk, needing support from an ICE officer as she shuffled her legs along in the chains.
Burke criticized the lack of official communication, saying he only learned of his daughter’s imminent deportation through a telephone call from one of her fellow detainees.
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Paul Burke detailed the "punitive" way his daughter Rebecca was treated prior to her deportation.
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