Backpackers who stay in hostels represented 27 per cent of all arrivals with 100,336 visiting the state in the September 2007 quarter — by September 2024, that proportion had shrunk to just 7 ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A British backpacker detained by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and held at a Tacoma detention center is back home in Wales, a source at ICE told KIRO 7 News.

According to The Seattle Times, 28-year-old Becky Burke was denied entry to Canada while on a backpacking trip and was detained when she tried to re-enter the U.S. She was subsequently held at the ...