US authorities hit back after Aussie ex-cop's deportation claims

The US Department of Homeland Security has addressed a erstwhile Australian constabulary officer's allegations that she was arbitrarily detained and deported from nan US while trying to sojourn her husband.

Nicole Saroukos, a erstwhile NSW Police officer, claimed she was targeted by separator officials erstwhile trying to sojourn nan US to spot her husband, a serving personnel of nan US military.

The Padstow Heights female told 9News that separator officials questioned her astir nan magnitude of clothing she had, arsenic good arsenic her tattoos.

"I felt arsenic though they were trying to racially floor plan me," she said.

Saroukos said she spent nan nighttime down bars successful Honolulu earlier being sent backmost to Australia.

Now, nan Department of Homeland Security has put guardant its ain claims astir why Saroukos was denied introduction to nan US.

"Nicolle Saroukos's caller semipermanent trips to nan United States and suspicious luggage resulted successful her being reasonably selected for secondary screening by CBP (Customs and Border Protection)," nan section said connected X.

"Officers wished that she was travelling for much than conscionable tourism."

The section besides claimed Saroukos could not retrieve nan day of her wedding, and that she had known her hubby only concisely earlier they wed.

"During screening, CBP noted location was different activity connected her phone, including 1,000 deleted matter messages from her hubby because she claimed they caused her 'anxiety'," nan station read.

"Saroukos moreover claimed that her hubby was going to time off nan U.S. military, contempt him telling CBP he was adding her to his subject documents."

The national government's Smartraveller website warns visitors to nan US that separator officials person "broad powers" to find who whitethorn aliases whitethorn not participate nan country.

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