A 36-year-old Australian traveller never imagined that her connecting flight through Los Angeles could unravel into a deportation nightmare.
Madolline Gourley's world turned upside down as she got booted out of America for pet-sitting. After five years of globe-trotting on a shoestring by house-sitting, she found herself stripped of her passport, interrogated about her reproductive history, and bundled onto a flight back to Brisbane – all because she'd been minding pets in exchange for free accommodation.
