The Guardian Australia reported that Madolline Gourley was traveling from Australia to Canada, where she planned to house- and cat-sit in exchange for free accommodations. Gourley has a travel blog where she documents her cat-sitting excursions. The 30-year-old told The Guardian she was treated like a criminal during her stop in Los Angeles on June 30, when border officials became suspicious about why she was traveling to Canada.

After being photographed, patted down, and interrogated twice, Gourley was asked whether she was pregnant. As she moved from one detention room to the next, she was asked again by an agent if she was pregnant. When she said she wasn’t, she was asked whether she had had an abortion. “I don’t know if she had forgotten, or she wanted to work out if I was lying or something, ” she told The Guardian Australia. “I said no, and she looked at me again and said, ‘Have you recently had an abortion?'” “I don’t know the thought process behind that,” Gourley said. “I just thought, ‘What’s the relevance of that to my situation?'”

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