Friend Erin Dept: "It was a horrible experience," said Nina Vroemen, 20, who was on her way to volunteer at a California organic farm. "There was no need for that humiliation and mistreatment of a young, female Canadian volunteer.", according to CBC. Vroemen, who studies theatre at Concordia University, set off from Montreal on May 5 on a Greyhound bus. She had found the volunteer job in California through World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, and planned to spend a month helping run art workshops at the farm. She thought she would explore the U.S. by bus on the way there. 'He was trying to make it seem like because I was getting room and board, that was considered being paid. He told me that I was taking jobs from American citizens ' Nina Vroemen Nina Vroemen, right, has previously volunteered at organic farms in Europe, like this one in Portugal, where she picked figs with her friend Erin Hill. Courtesy of Nina Vroemen A young woman from Gatineau, Que., says she was strip-searched and stranded in Windsor, Ont., in the middle of the night by U.S. border officials. As of Wednesday morning, U.S. immigration officials had not returned calls about the case. As
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