The BriefRebecca Burke, a 28-year-old British cartoonist, was removed from the United States after being detained for violating visa terms during her backpacking trip.Her father expressed concern over her classification as an "illegal alien" and the conditions she faced while detained at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.

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,