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I don't really have a problem with this. She came in on a tourism visa but she would be staying at a host family doing "chores" (work) in exchange for accommodation (payment). I am sure they were going to give her a small amount of money too, otherwise how did she plan to go sight seeing unless she has a lot of savings?

If things like this were allowed you would just have people importing "free labor" for someone to live in your home and do all of the cooking/cleaning/shopping/etc for you and all you would have to do is give them a place to sleep and food.

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>A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border. Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry. She was planning to stay with a host family where she would carry out domestic chores in exchange for accommodation and was told she should have applied for a working visa, instead of a tourist visa. She had previously been staying with a host family in Portland, Oregon, under a similar arrangement after spending some time sightseeing in New York City, where she first arrived from the UK at the start of the year.

I don't really have a problem with this. She came in on a tourism visa but she would be staying at a host family doing "chores" (work) in exchange for accommodation (payment). I am sure they were going to give her a small amount of money too, otherwise how did she plan to go sight seeing unless she has a lot of savings? If things like this were allowed you would just have people importing "free labor" for someone to live in your home and do all of the cooking/cleaning/shopping/etc for you and all you would have to do is give them a place to sleep and food. Archive: https://archive.today/ITImX From the post: >>A British tourist on a four-month backpacking trip around North America has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the US for 10 days after trying to enter the country via the Canadian border. Rebecca Burke, 28, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, was trying to cross into the state of Washington when she was refused entry. She was planning to stay with a host family where she would carry out domestic chores in exchange for accommodation and was told she should have applied for a working visa, instead of a tourist visa. She had previously been staying with a host family in Portland, Oregon, under a similar arrangement after spending some time sightseeing in New York City, where she first arrived from the UK at the start of the year.

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Catch them were you find them. Enforcement starts at the point of entry (as in this case). If we can't keep them from coming in you can't get rid of enough of them fast enough for it to matter.