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Comment by rajeemcariazo | Hacker News Reader

This story interests me because I'm a Filipino

Many, many Filipinos travel to the USA without incident, and many emigrate here, get their green card, and become US citizens with no problems. But I know sad, unfortunate incidents like this happen, and they make me embarrassed for my country. The agents that did this ought to be held accountable and fired. There is simply no excuse for this woman being treated this way. Americans are a very welcoming and friendly people, but I know the Federal bureaucracy is not.

> The agents that did this ought to be held accountable and fired.

That is the exact problem the US has, nobody is ever penalized for these actions.

Perhaps because instead of actually, you know, lodging a complaint, people just run to bad journalists who, instead of trying to get some kind of statement from the CBP, just parrot her statements without questioning any of it.

This is a really sloppy journalism piece, and I'm surprised that no one's pointed out just how bad it is. This article is unresearched, anti-US junk.

Citation needed.

What? Citation needed for what?

You say it's sloppy and unresearched. I'd like to hear why that is, based on something more than just your opinion.

Here's some good journalism with the same outcome:

"Is there a time limit on how long someone can be detained? Do people have to unlock their phones, if asked? Do agents have to inform you why you're being detained? And I didn't even approach them as like an angry citizen. I approached them as a journalist, who had very straightforward questions just about the process and the protocol. And what I discovered, doing that, is that the lack of transparency that I saw during our detainment just continued up and up and up the ranks, all the way to DC, where nobody was getting back to me about anything."

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i...

But why is it on Hacker News? And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino, so I don't expect them to know Pinay either.

"Filipino visitor something something..."

>> But why is it on Hacker News? <<

Are you new to Hacker News? The stories are posted by people who frequent the site, and stories like these are on the first page constantly. I would suspect such things are important to the Hacker News readership. You could make theories why, but that's for another post.

>> And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino... <<

Well, now I know what it means, getting a little educated with my news - can't hurt. I don't think a place like Hacker News should be dumbing down the language, or spelling, of its posts.

its "hacker news". not fox news. hackers can figure it out themselves.

> And why did the submitter use the term Pinay? People barely know how to spell Filipino, so I don't expect them to know Pinay either.

The title comes from the submitted article. The article comes from ABC-CBN, a Philippine news source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABS-CBN_News_and_Current_Affai...

> ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs (formerly ABS-CBN News and Public Affairs) is the news division of Philippine media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. The organization is responsible for the daily news and information gathering of its news programs. Its current slogan is Panig sa Katotohanan, Panig sa Pagbangon ng Bayan (Tagalog for Sides for the Truth, Sides for the Rise of the Nation). According to the SWS media trust survey, ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs topped the list among Philippines news and broadcast organizations, garnering 68% of the public trust.

> But why is it on Hacker News?

What stories should be on HN, and why do you think this doesn't fit?

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