[owen_griffiths]

"one country's overreaction of 9/11"

There is not any evidence that 9/11 has anything to do with this - this sounds more like a regular limitation of work rights issue. Hacker news regularly has stories about the difficulty of navigating the US work rights regime.

[viraptor]

Deportation and visa issues - sure. But I only started to see the stories about bad treatment and jail-like airport detention centres after the overreaction. Were there any known ones before?