So you probably don't know who Elesky is, but basically she is an spanish streamer and she's also a profesional piano player. She was going to play piano at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, which she was really excited about. She has explained on Twitter what her horrible experiencie trying to enter the country was like, which I'll translate for y'all. Honestly, I feel very angry and super sad, cause she was really excited to play in Las Vegas and she had to leave the coutry in a very bad way and scared out of her mind.
"I feel terrible having to say this after so many months preparing it and making all of you excited about this. They have not allowed me to enter the US, they held me at the border and sent me back, it has been a horrible experience, I will give you a brief summary."
"I was traveling alone, and I had all the documentation they asked for to enter the US. My trip was Gijón - Madrid - London - Las Vegas (what a trip). In Madrid everything was fine and in London too, in fact in London they already checked that I had everything to enter the US and everything was fine."
"I arrived in Las Vegas, once there you have to cross the border: they ask for your passport, they take your fingerprints and they ask you some questions. I was calm because there wasn't any problem at the moment. I got to the counter and they startex checking all my information."
"They took my fingerprints, they looked at my passport, they asked me for a piece of paper that you have to cover on the plane and I was about to pass, until he asked me: "where are you going?" And I said, in a super happy manner: "I'm going to the NAB Show to work". And he kept asking: "what are you going to do?". And me: "play the piano."
"The man looked at me strangely and said: "no one ever goes to NAB Show to play the piano". I kept looking at him like... what is this all about? The man asked me some more questions about the job and told me: "wait here, they're going to come to ask you more questions."
"I was freaking out but I was calm, because I knew I hadn't done anything wrong and I thought they would let me pass. A (very unpleasant) policeman came and took me to a police room. They took me to the counter, they took my cell phone (I had it in my hand), and it started again."
"Where are you going?" "To NAB Show to Work" "What are you going to do?" "Play the piano" And here it blew up, because the policeman replied: "and why do they hire you and not an American?"
"I didn't even know what to say to him. I started to get nervous and the policeman kept asking me everything about the job. I asked him to please let me have my cell phone to call my contractors and he refused. I was already starting to feel sick."
"He made me tell him everything, show him all the emails, show him the contract. I insisted that he please let me call someone and he wouldn't let me. The policeman did not even look at me in the face and spoke to me in a super cold manner. He kept me there for more than an hour, incommunicated."
"After telling him and showing him absolutely everything, he told me that my documentation was not valid (a lie, all the workers who go to NAB go with the same documents as me), and that I should go back to London and fix it at the consulate."
"That's when the world began to come crashing down on me. I tried to give him a lot of alternatives and they gave me no choice. I started to get dizzy, my ear started ringing, I asked if he could please let me call my mother, to which the policeman refused every time I asked him."
"They took a statement from me, and they also added: "If you don't take a statement, we're going to have to arrest you." After more than an hour, they put me on the first plane back to London and when I got on the plane they finally gave me my mobile back and I called my mother asap."
"I don't know exactly what went wrong, I only know that they made special emphasis on the fact that I was taking jobs away from american people. Just to add that in front of me at customs there was an english man who said exactly the same thing as i did, that he was going to the NAB Show, but they let him pass without any hussle."
"After the biggest disappointment of my life I had to go through another 10 hours of flight when I was completely wrecked. In London my uncles were waiting for me (they are from there). My aunt has traveled to the US many times to work and told me that what had happened to me made no sense."
Man, fuck this racist scumbags. I can't even know how scared she had to be, and she was only going there to do the work she had been hired to. Also im 0% surprised that they had no problem with a british guy saying exactly the same thing as her
TLDR: Spanish pianist try to get to las vegas to work at NAB Show, she faces some racist scumbag cops who take her phone and threaten her saying that she is taking jobs from american people, and is forced to leave the country asap alegating that her paperwork wasn't valid (which was a lie)
"I feel terrible having to say this after so many months preparing it and making all of you excited about this. They have not allowed me to enter the US, they held me at the border and sent me back, it has been a horrible experience, I will give you a brief summary."
"I was traveling alone, and I had all the documentation they asked for to enter the US. My trip was Gijón - Madrid - London - Las Vegas (what a trip). In Madrid everything was fine and in London too, in fact in London they already checked that I had everything to enter the US and everything was fine."
"I arrived in Las Vegas, once there you have to cross the border: they ask for your passport, they take your fingerprints and they ask you some questions. I was calm because there wasn't any problem at the moment. I got to the counter and they startex checking all my information."
"They took my fingerprints, they looked at my passport, they asked me for a piece of paper that you have to cover on the plane and I was about to pass, until he asked me: "where are you going?" And I said, in a super happy manner: "I'm going to the NAB Show to work". And he kept asking: "what are you going to do?". And me: "play the piano."
"The man looked at me strangely and said: "no one ever goes to NAB Show to play the piano". I kept looking at him like... what is this all about? The man asked me some more questions about the job and told me: "wait here, they're going to come to ask you more questions."
"I was freaking out but I was calm, because I knew I hadn't done anything wrong and I thought they would let me pass. A (very unpleasant) policeman came and took me to a police room. They took me to the counter, they took my cell phone (I had it in my hand), and it started again."
"Where are you going?" "To NAB Show to Work" "What are you going to do?" "Play the piano" And here it blew up, because the policeman replied: "and why do they hire you and not an American?"
"I didn't even know what to say to him. I started to get nervous and the policeman kept asking me everything about the job. I asked him to please let me have my cell phone to call my contractors and he refused. I was already starting to feel sick."
"He made me tell him everything, show him all the emails, show him the contract. I insisted that he please let me call someone and he wouldn't let me. The policeman did not even look at me in the face and spoke to me in a super cold manner. He kept me there for more than an hour, incommunicated."
"After telling him and showing him absolutely everything, he told me that my documentation was not valid (a lie, all the workers who go to NAB go with the same documents as me), and that I should go back to London and fix it at the consulate."
"That's when the world began to come crashing down on me. I tried to give him a lot of alternatives and they gave me no choice. I started to get dizzy, my ear started ringing, I asked if he could please let me call my mother, to which the policeman refused every time I asked him."
"They took a statement from me, and they also added: "If you don't take a statement, we're going to have to arrest you." After more than an hour, they put me on the first plane back to London and when I got on the plane they finally gave me my mobile back and I called my mother asap."
"I don't know exactly what went wrong, I only know that they made special emphasis on the fact that I was taking jobs away from american people. Just to add that in front of me at customs there was an english man who said exactly the same thing as i did, that he was going to the NAB Show, but they let him pass without any hussle."
"After the biggest disappointment of my life I had to go through another 10 hours of flight when I was completely wrecked. In London my uncles were waiting for me (they are from there). My aunt has traveled to the US many times to work and told me that what had happened to me made no sense."
Man, fuck this racist scumbags. I can't even know how scared she had to be, and she was only going there to do the work she had been hired to. Also im 0% surprised that they had no problem with a british guy saying exactly the same thing as her
TLDR: Spanish pianist try to get to las vegas to work at NAB Show, she faces some racist scumbag cops who take her phone and threaten her saying that she is taking jobs from american people, and is forced to leave the country asap alegating that her paperwork wasn't valid (which was a lie)
