Whitey Ford
08-27-2019, 04:15 PM
'Lawless' and 'Despicable': Harvard Freshman Deported After Immigration Agents Search Social Media and Find Friends Critical of US Policy
A Palestinian student set to attend his freshman year at Harvard was reportedly denied entry to the U.S. based on his friends' social media posts, setting off a firestorm of criticism from progressives, though not the so-called "free speech warriors" of the right.
Ismail B. Ajjawi, 17, who won a full scholarship to Harvard, was sent back to his home in Lebanon Friday from Boston's Logan International Airport after an hours-long interrogation by immigration officers, who he said also searched his phone and computer.
"An incoming Palestinian Harvard student is being punished not even for his own speech, but for the speech of his friends *that was critical of the US*," tweeted Jillian York, director of the International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Note the crickets from the conservative 'free speech' defenders."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/27/lawless-and-despicable-harvard-freshman-deported-after-immigration-agents-search
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While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
U.S. officials deported Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday night shortly after he arrived at Boston Logan International Airport. Before canceling Ajjawi’s visa, immigration officers subjected him to hours of questioning — at one point leaving to search his phone and computer — according to a written statement by Ajjawi.
He gets a FREE scholarship to an Ivy League institution that will guarantee him top tier consideration to the best and highest paying careers, while US born students will struggle with student debt for the rest of their lives.
Ajjawi told the Crimson he was in the airport for eight hours before he was required to leave. During that time, he said officers questioned him about his religion and he was made to unlock his phone and laptop to allow for a search.
He told the Crimson that an officer found "political points of view that oppose the U.S." among his friends on social media, but Ajjawi said he had no political posts of any kind on his own accounts.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshman-deported/
A Palestinian student set to attend his freshman year at Harvard was reportedly denied entry to the U.S. based on his friends' social media posts, setting off a firestorm of criticism from progressives, though not the so-called "free speech warriors" of the right.
Ismail B. Ajjawi, 17, who won a full scholarship to Harvard, was sent back to his home in Lebanon Friday from Boston's Logan International Airport after an hours-long interrogation by immigration officers, who he said also searched his phone and computer.
"An incoming Palestinian Harvard student is being punished not even for his own speech, but for the speech of his friends *that was critical of the US*," tweeted Jillian York, director of the International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "Note the crickets from the conservative 'free speech' defenders."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/27/lawless-and-despicable-harvard-freshman-deported-after-immigration-agents-search
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, the tears of shitlibs! Keep crying for your sandmonkey, shitlibs.
While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi ’23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.
U.S. officials deported Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, Friday night shortly after he arrived at Boston Logan International Airport. Before canceling Ajjawi’s visa, immigration officers subjected him to hours of questioning — at one point leaving to search his phone and computer — according to a written statement by Ajjawi.
He gets a FREE scholarship to an Ivy League institution that will guarantee him top tier consideration to the best and highest paying careers, while US born students will struggle with student debt for the rest of their lives.
Ajjawi told the Crimson he was in the airport for eight hours before he was required to leave. During that time, he said officers questioned him about his religion and he was made to unlock his phone and laptop to allow for a search.
He told the Crimson that an officer found "political points of view that oppose the U.S." among his friends on social media, but Ajjawi said he had no political posts of any kind on his own accounts.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/8/27/incoming-freshman-deported/