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Her dream trip turned into nightmare for my daughter
• A GREAT article on the 14 Methodist volunteers turned back at Gatwick (Airport bar on the good samaritans, June 26).
My 14-year-old daughter was one of the 14. Not only did they fingerprint and photograph her, they also searched her and interrogated her. They asked her questions she had no idea how to answer. The hardest part for her to get past is the fact that she has actually been deported from a country she has dreamed of visiting her entire life. She has her deportation letter and just looking at it she starts crying.
She had dreamed of this trip for 18 months and for this to happen has been a nightmare. Through all of what happened she is still ready and willing to go back.
This would have been her second missions trip. Last year she travelled to Mississippi with her church youth group and worked on two houses damaged during Hurricane Katrina. Thanks again for this article.
ANNETTE SHIRLEY
Okeechobee, Florida
• I FEEL so sorry for the Florida volunteers who came all that way to be humiliated in such a disgusting manner. They should be allowed to return and their air fare paid.
M GIBSON
Ormond Road
N19
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