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Brown University Doctor with H-1B visa held incommunicado at Logan airport for deportation after trip to see family in Lebanon

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I have advised family and friends who have valid visas to delay any upcoming travel plans to the US. Especially the elderly who come here to visit their children. They may not be able to survive this treatment.
 
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France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
 
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I've read speculation that people are being held this long because of the money private prisons make from housing them. I'm so sorry she had to experience this. I have family who live out the country. One came home in January and said she wasn't coming back as long as Trump was president. I thought she was over reacting but now I'm not so sure.
 
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France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.
To be fair, similar things have happened before. The most concerning aspect of this particular case was that DHS claimed that his criticism of Trump and US policy could amount to "terrorism".
 
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Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer says he is innocent.

“Seeing our government abduct and jail another innocent person is beyond contemptible,” [lawyer] Ahmad said Wednesday night. “And if an accomplished scholar who focuses on conflict resolution is whom the government decides is bad for foreign policy, then perhaps the problem is with the government, not the scholar.”

According to Politico, Ahmad argued in the court filing — which is not accessible on the online court docket — that Suri was detained because of his wife’s Palestinian heritage and the couple’s political beliefs about U.S.-Israel policy.

[DHS spox] McLaughlin said on X that Suri’s “activities and presence in the United States rendered him deportable” based on the same section of the Immigration and Nationality Act that federal authorities have used to attempt to deport Khalil. That section of code allows the secretary of state to move to deport an individual if they have “reasonable grounds” to believe that the person’s presence in the United States could have “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.

In a statement, Georgetown spokesperson Meghan Dubyak said Suri was “duly granted a visa” to the United States to continue his research on peace-building in Iraq and Afghanistan and that the university expects the “legal system to adjudicate this case fairly.”
 
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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

 
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Georgetown University researcher detained by immigration authorities, lawyer says

Indian national Badar Khan Suri was spreading “Hamas propaganda,” DHS said. His lawyer says he is innocent.

Judge blocks deportation of Georgetown fellow detained by immigration authorities

U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles issued an order barring Suri's deportation from the United States "unless and until the Court issues a contrary order."

"The Rubio Determination and the government's subsequent actions... and plans to whisk him 1,600 miles away in the same manner as the government did in the case of Mr. Mahmoud Khalil, isolating him from his wife, children, community and legal team, are plainly intended as retaliation and punishment for Mr. Suri's protected speech," the complaint says, referring to the recent arrest of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

"We are not aware of him engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention," the university said in a statement. "We support our community members' rights to free and open inquiry, deliberation and debate, even if the underlying ideas may be difficult, controversial or objectionable. We expect the legal system to adjudicate this case fairly."
 
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Sounds like some sort of process where she has her right to due process is called for.
Well, considering she is not in the US or even a US citizen......I'll take "NO" for $1000 Alec.........
 
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U.S. authorities did not respond to a request from The Associated Press for figures on how many tourists have recently been held at detention facilities or explain why they weren’t simply denied entry.

I think it's because the private prisons are making money and also to send the message to others not to travel here.


 
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Semi related. I didn't want to make a new thread.


Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and half in Derby Line, Vermont.

Although the primary entrance is technically on the American side, the library has long been treated as a neutral zone, where citizens of either country were able to enter as they pleased. As part of the agreement, U.S. border officers patrolled the area around the library and were authorized to search people’s bags.

However, American border patrol officers are planning to ban entry to Canadians through the library’s main entrance unless they first enter the U.S. through an official border crossing point, the president of the library’s board told the CBC.

A DHS official alleged in a statement to the Daily Beast that the library was being used for drug trafficking.

Beginning next week, the library will ask Canadian visitors to enter the U.S. through an official crossing point. It is also confirmed that it is planning to add a door on the Canadian side for those without a passport. Inside the library, visitors will be allowed to move freely, but they must exit through the same door they entered.
 
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Semi related. I didn't want to make a new thread.


Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border—it’s half in Stanstead, Quebec, and half in Derby Line, Vermont.

Although the primary entrance is technically on the American side, the library has long been treated as a neutral zone, where citizens of either country were able to enter as they pleased. As part of the agreement, U.S. border officers patrolled the area around the library and were authorized to search people’s bags.

However, American border patrol officers are planning to ban entry to Canadians through the library’s main entrance unless they first enter the U.S. through an official border crossing point, the president of the library’s board told the CBC.

A DHS official alleged in a statement to the Daily Beast that the library was being used for drug trafficking.

Beginning next week, the library will ask Canadian visitors to enter the U.S. through an official crossing point. It is also confirmed that it is planning to add a door on the Canadian side for those without a passport. Inside the library, visitors will be allowed to move freely, but they must exit through the same door they entered.
Aren't they then still able to do drug trafficking inside the library?
 
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