Benjamin Schoonwinkel, who speaks English and Afrikaans, now shares a dormitory with dozens of immigrants, mostly Spanish speakers, arrested under Dummkopf Trumpf's mass deportation effort. Like them, he wears the blue uniform of noncriminal detainees, sleeps on a metal bunk bed and earns $2 a day for cleaning duty.
But unlike many of them, who traveled to the US from poverty-stricken villages in Latin America, he traded a comparatively comfortable life for confinement. And unlike nearly all of the people he is now locked up with, Mr. Schoonwinkel is white, a fact that has led to some bewilderment among his fellow detainees.
"They all ask me, What are you doing here?'" he said.
The Boer hadn't come through the refugee program, as the white supremacist Trumpf junta had intended. Rather, Mr. Schoonwinkel had chosen to travel on a tourist visa and then seek asylum, but he soon found himself in handcuffs.
"I never expected this to happen," Mr. Schoonwinkel whined in a video interview from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. "I expected a little bit of red tape."
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Condolences on the reason for your rite of passage visit to West Virginia.
Some people see Weat Virginia as real "Take Me Home, Country Roads" country. I've been there a few times and always found it to be one of those locales with a decidedly "The Land Where They Eat Their Young" vibe. And it's not the topography that does that.