It was billed as a chance to taste the “glitz and glamour” of Hollywood or enjoy VIP treatment in some of the most exclusive shopping areas in the world. But when a group of 2,000 elderly British cruise ship passengers docked at Los Angeles for a short stop-off during a five-star cruise around America it was, in the words of one of them, more like arriving at Guantanamo Bay.

An immigration story that we all know all too well. Someone finally reporting on the mindless bureaucracy.

Norwegian of the Year deported to Russia.
Salamova arrived in Norway in 2002 and is considered an integration success story: she has completed a Masters degree, although she had to use a fake name and has had to live in hiding.

"Most people think I am Norwegian. I speak Norwegian, I think Norwegian, I dream in Norwegian,''

"We should not reward people who choose to go into hiding and to live illegally for a long time in this country,'' Stoltenberg insisted to parliament last week, adding "everyone is equal before the law.''

"East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could, we could."
The Tea Party-backed candidate, who is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, explained that he once served at the Fulda Gap, a point on the former East-West German border. East Germany's border troops were given orders to shoot anyone trying to flee East Germany.

Sylvie Nelson's border crossings are anything but routine. Customs agents sometimes order her out of her car. Twice, they handcuffed her in front of her young children. Once, agents swarmed her car and handcuffed her husband, too.

She tells them: It's not me you want, it's a man with the same birth date and a similar name. Agents always confirm that and let her go.

Then it happens again. And again.