Brit, 24, jailed, handcuffed and deported from US after immigration officials find text to American girlfriend saying ‘I am moving to be with you’
He was locked in a cell for a day and interrogated in a windowless room before officials scoured his mobile.
A BRIT visiting his American girlfriend on a three-month holiday of a lifetime was locked in a cell for 24 hours and deported from the US after border officials found a text on his phone that read: "I am moving to be near you."
Isaac Roblett, 24, claims he was talking about spending three months with girlfriend Camila Iglesia under an ESTA permit in the text sent a month before his flight to Chicago.
Isaac Roblett told American Camila Iglesia 'I am moving to be with you' a month before the flight to Chicago
After landing he was locked in a cell for a day and interrogated in a windowless room.
He was deported the next day.
Isaac, of Hastings, East Sussex, said: "They went through my phone, all my messages, and found a message to my girlfriend which said ‘I am moving to be with you’.
THROWN IN VILE CELL
"They said that’s evidence enough to not allow me in."
The full message - sent during an argument - read: "In terms of a break up, I don’t know what I’ve done to make you forget that in a month’s time I am moving to be with you."
But Isaac insists he just meant for the duration of the holiday, adding: "I wouldn’t say ‘visit you’ if it’s three months."
He added: "I was almost crying, trying to hold back the tears. One of the officers told me: ‘Man up, get over it'."
He was thrown in a brightly-lit cell with four other people before being led back to a plane in handcuffs.
He said: "It was the worst thing you’ve ever seen. The toilet was literally a hole in the ground.”
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "Our staff offered advice to a British man who was denied entry to the USA, and were in contact with the US immigration authorities regarding his case."
He was thrown in a brightly-lit cell with four other people before being led back to a plane in handcuffs
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