You are reading a single comment by @JWestland and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
All this "looking tough on terror" nonsense victimises a lot of people that would other have been victims. People from Christian families/the "wrong" type of Muslim aren't having a good time in the ME, they are thrown under the bus as well over a few terrorist attacks.
Sorry to hear what happened to your friend :(
JWestland
skydancer
It's right that the EO formalizing this policy gets the attention and outrage it deserves but I think people should realize that the US border agency basically have carte blanche to refuse whomsoever they feel like refusing and have been doing so, on really pretty shaky grounds, for quite some time.
An Australian citizen friend with an Australian passport, who also has indefinite leave to remain in the UK where he has lived and worked for 12 years, and who held a valid ESTA to enter the US was refused to enter the US over the summer, because he was born in Iraq.
His ESTA had been revoked without notification in the run up to the election and he was turned away. His christian parents left Iraq when he was a baby and he has never been back. His extended family live in Canada and Even though he was only catching a connecting flight to go on a two week holiday in Nicaragua. He was refused entry to change flights in Chicago and put on a flight back to Heathrow.
And that was under Obama.
Mental.