In April 2025, claims (archived) circulated online that U.S. border authorities detained and deported two German tourists in Hawaii. One X user, whose post had more than 4 million views at the ...

raising concerns about the treatment of tourists and the potential detrimental effect on international travel to the U.S. Maria Lepère and Charlotte Pohl, both recent high school graduates ...

Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepère, 18, were embarking on an around-the-world backpacking trip in March after graduating from high school. On March 18, they arrived in Honolulu, Hawaii ...

Two German teenagers planning to explore the US on vacation were thrown in jail and then booted from the country after Customs and Border Protection found their loosely planned trip “suspicious.” ...

Maria Lepere, 18, and Charlotte Pohl, 19, arrived in Hawaii on March 18 with short-term travel permits ahead of a weeks-long US trip but were detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP ...

According to the paper, Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu without hotel reservations for their planned five-week stay on the island. Although both travelers had ...

Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepère, 18 ... The German Foreign Office told the outlet it was involved in Pohl and Lepere’s case and provided consular support following their experience.

“It was really humiliating,” Maria Lepere, a 19-year-old German from Rostock who was detained along with her friend Charlotte Pohl, also 19, at the Honolulu airport for 24 hours in Marc ...

Charlotte Pohl and Maria Lepère’s first night in Honolulu was not how they intended. The jet-setting high school graduates from Rostock, Germany, had envisioned island-hopping across Hawaii ...