While New Brunswick - base creative person Gisele Lagace has worked on comics for Dynamite , IDW , Archie , and Marvel , she ’s also a freelance illustrator . Like many freelancer , shesaw Chicago ’s C2E2as an chance to do some important self - promotion and potentially sign on to do some commission study .
After two days of driving from her home in guild to get to the U.S./Canadian border , though , Lagace was stop by border patrol , questioned about what business sector she had in the States , and ultimately deny entry into the land .
No#c2e2for me . Got refused entry to the US . Read about my experience herehttps://t.co/nrFZqHKCTx
— Gisele Lagace ( @GiseleLagace)April 20 , 2017
In a extended Facebook post , Lagace discover her experience with border agents who search through her machine , her drawings , body searched her , and take her fingerprint after determining that she did n’t have a logical understanding to be traveling into the U.S. The issue the agents took , Lagace explain , was the fact that she ’d already commence some of her commission work in Canada with the design of finishing it in the States , which would qualify as her working here .
“ They retain pressing about the funnies I had and the sketches , and well , I had to be honorable and said that I did get paid for military commission but beforehand , but since they were n’t complete , it was considered study in the [ U.S ] , ” Lagace spell . “ Comics - wise , I had peradventure $ 700 in value if I had trade everything . Honestly , it ’s not a raft . ”
According to Lagace , the delimitation agents also seemed skeptical of the idea that she would be travel into the U.S. just to promote her art , something that literallyentire discussion section of bunco game are dedicated to .
It ’s unclear specifically why the moulding broker refused Lagace entry into the country , but Lagace ’s story does bear some resemblance to a number of similar instances offoreigners being rick away from the U.S.in the wake of PresidentTrump ’s ( failed ) Moslem ban .
Lagace was able-bodied to plainly turn around and head home after the ordeal , but she now says that she does n’t plan on attempt to come back to the U.S. any clock time shortly .
“ Now that I ’ve been refused entry in the US for this , it ’s on filing cabinet , ” she tell . “ Do n’t gestate to see me at a U.S. inmate until I can figure out a way of life to get in and being utterly certain this wo n’t bechance . ”
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