Interview With Michael Durack, Author of Illegal From Holland

Today we are talking with Michael Durack, author of The Illegal from Holland, published by Infinity Publishing and available on Amazon and other online outlets.PBR: Michael, thank you for taking your time to talk with us today.Thank you for providing the opportunity.PBR: First let me say how "sorry" I am for you and your wife to have had such an ordeal. As they say, "Bad things often happen to good people," so are you bitter about your experience with ICE and the Immigration system?I don't know if bitter is the right word, but I'm definitely much more cynical about the effectiveness and moral justification of the way people in the system are treated.



PBR: When did the concept of writing your book come about? Were you compiling a diary during the approximate year and a half?I probably made a few notes while I was traveling in Europe with Yolande, but I didn't keep a diary. I think I just felt that our experience with the U.S. government's policies was so bizarre and being treated like criminals was so unjust that I had to write about it.PBR: At any time when Yolande was in custody, did you fear for her safety?Not really. She is so good at adapting to almost any situation and taking any obstacle in stride that she never seemed to feel there was any danger and she transferred that attitude to me.



I was mostly concerned with how long she would have to stay there and not being able to get any information regarding when she would be freed.PBR: I know from having read your book your personal views on "the system," but if you knew then what you know now, what might you have done differently?Well, I certainly wouldn't have been so honest at the checkpoint in New Mexico. I was still na