In March 2025, a claim spread that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained British tourist Becky Burke in Washington state after she was refused entry into the U.S. Snopes readers wrote to us to ask about the legitimacy of a Facebook post purportedly written by Burke's father,

They keep saying in all their booklets that this is not a prison,” she said to a news outlet. “It’s hard to distinguish from my conception of a prison.”

A 28-year-old tourist from Wales has allegedly been detained for nearly two weeks after attempting to travel from the U.S. to Canada.

Despite being on a tourist visa with no criminal record, British national Rebecca Burke was handcuffed and thrown in a detention center, her father said.

A British tourist traveling from Washington state to Canada is being held in a Tacoma detention center after she was arrested at the border for an incorrect visa.