tonrob

I'd assumed they could 'force' an available seat. It was more the 8-hours thing that struck me. Many routes only have one flight every 24 hours. Assuming that it might take longer than the aircraft's 2-3 hour turnaround for someone to get processed to the point of being 'booted' then there could be another day until the next flight on those routes.

Giantaxe

Given the antipathy between the Conservative government and the BBC, that made me chuckle. And what, pray, was the "UK-government agenda" being "pushed" by this article?

sir_eccles

It's like the spy swaps of the cold war!

https://www.timeshighereducation.com...removal-centre

dc koop

You can always trust the BBC to come up with something like that, some of it often half cocked, incomplete details included in background

BritInParis

Even the Beeb isn't immune to clickbait these days. Sign of the times.

SanDiegogirl

It's not the BBC claiming he was denied entry to the US "because of his color"

They are quoting was Amreet Surana himself said.

Several news organisations have picked up on how, his words, he was treated “like dirt”

The guy was refused entry and has made it very publicly known it was all down to race.

RoadWarriorFromLP

News story reports that A makes claim against B.

News story adds B's response or lack thereof to A's allegation.

This is standard journalism. The story doesn't take a side or investigate whether the claim or the defenses against the claim are true or false, it just reports what A and B had to say about it.

The funny thing about this is that you claim that the BBC is biased because it didn't attempt to discredit the claim. You don't realize that you are the one who is exhibiting bias since you are so eager to paint one of subjects of the story in a bad light.

md95065

I really liked the bit about his intention to "appeal" the revocation of his ESTA ...

Cardienscarf

When I 'withdrew my application to enter the US' back in the early 90's, there wasn't a flight on the airline I flew on for 2 days. Had I not had my children with me, I would have been detained. However, because they couldn't accommodate the boys they were going to place us under security at a local hotel. In the end, they took our passports and let us leave with my then boyfriend.

Pulaski

Were they afraid you might leave the country?

Cardienscarf

Now I think about it, were they legally entitled to take our British passports?

Giantaxe

I've always wondered that. Coming back from the UK once I was asked for my British passport as my US passport had no stamp in it. It was a relatively new passport and I'd entered the UK on my British passport. I very much suspected that they thought I'd visited Cuba. I complied but wonder whether I could have legally refused. Of course, regardless of legality, they could have given me a lot of grief if I had.

scrubbedexpat091

I don't know the legalities of it and it was a TV show, but the Canadian show that follows CBSA around, has shown Canadian officers also taking passports of those they are going to remove, but the flight isn't til the next day and for whatever reason they decided not to detain the person.

Not sure if its the norm, or just done for TV.