Welcome to america: French Holocaust historian detained for 10 hours at US customs

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Historian Henry Rousso works with the French National Centre for Scientific Research and has ties to Columbia University, Harvard, and others.

New York (CNN)A French Holocaust historian who was detained for 10 hours at Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport says "The United

States seems no longer quite the United States."


Henry Rousso was due to take part in a discussion "Writing in dark times" at Texas A&M University when he was stopped last week.


He says it was the first time in 30 years of traveling to the US that he experienced any problems on entry.


Ruosso says an immigration officer told him he wasn't "allowed to give a lecture and receive an honorarium" with his tourist visa. The US State Department allows foreign

nationals to receive an honorarium under a tourist visa if they are a lecturer or a speaker and under certain guidelines, all of which Rousso met.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/world/french-historian-held-at-airport-trnd/index.html

[DanTex]

1. This is terrible. WTF.

[Ilsa]

2. The university president had to call the head of

Their new law school (or law dept) to intervene and get it fixed.

ICE and CBP are hooligans now.

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3. they have been emboldened by trump

a friend of mine was detained yesterday....wanded over and over. touching her private parts.

in view of everyone.

TSA pre-approved and she was treated like a felon.

[Ilsa]

6. Male or female touched her?

I think I'd file a complaint, especially since she had been pre-approved.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. America is now what the tparty and deplorables have wanted for decades

A racist place of intolerance and hate.

I wish the rest of the planet would stop coming here, dont spend a penny here while the fascists are in charge.

[anarch]

5. understandable, given the priorities of the "real Americans"

they don't like furriners, eggheads, or Jew-lovers, and this guy would appear to be all three of those. I'm only surprised that they finally let him continue his trip.

I miss the United States.

[still_one]

7. Our country is a disgrace. We have no moral standing to criticize others for human rights