But for this specific case, would it have been any different a year ago?
She was working in the US without a work visa. The US should have caught this before she came in here but didn't. Canada however raised an eyebrow at the arrangement and turned her away, while also informing the US officers as to why. They then realized she was doing the same thing in the US and so documented it and detained her for illegally working in the US.
What else could the response to the situation have been here? Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I got the wrong visa" is like saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I thought that sign said speed limit 80 MPH, not speed limit 30 MPH".
>The US should have caught this before she came in here but didn't.
How? Unless she said, on her (tourist) visa application or when she actually entered the country, that she wqas going to be working, they wouldn't know.
Years ago, my ex-wife came to he U.S. on a tourist visa specifically to work as an au pair. The agency she worked with and the family she worked for, all told her just to say she was coming here on vacation. No one at (then) INS ever knew. (When we decided to get married, she went home and we went through the seris K visa process.)
> But for this specific case, would it have been any different a year ago?
Yes? They may have kicked her out of the country—not locked her up for 19 days.
> Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I got the wrong visa" is like saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I thought that sign said speed limit 80 MPH, not speed limit 30 MPH".
And if someone said that, do you think they should get locked up for 19 days?
Warn people coming to the US on a tourist visa not to work while they are here. Sure, people do it and people get away with it; but, if you get caught -- especially now -- you're going to run into trouble.
She was working in the US without a work visa. The US should have caught this before she came in here but didn't. Canada however raised an eyebrow at the arrangement and turned her away, while also informing the US officers as to why. They then realized she was doing the same thing in the US and so documented it and detained her for illegally working in the US.
What else could the response to the situation have been here? Because saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I didn't realize I got the wrong visa" is like saying "oh it was all just a mistake, I thought that sign said speed limit 80 MPH, not speed limit 30 MPH".