This story insane.

Then I saw this linked to it from 2022 about another Australian who didn’t know you have to book an onward flight:

Dunn said about six hours after landing he was handcuffed and taken to the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, where he was told to strip naked and was twice searched under his scrotum and anus for contraband before being admitted.

He had no access to his phone or contact with his parents in Australia, and claimed he was placed in a cell with another prisoner who had smeared blood and faeces on the wall. He was told to sleep on a concrete floor with a paper bag for a pillow.

What's funny to me is how this has been sitting just under the surface in the US for a long, long time.

The veneer has finally worn through and we see the face of the United States that had one been latent but is now overt.