Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

+1 Excellent. No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.

You don't know that. The boy was only 17. The friends' comments in social media could have been "Death to America". Remember the pilots for the two 9/11 flights that went into the World Trade Center came out of Logan. I would rather be safe than sorry. And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org. giving him the scholarship) were active. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

Poor kid. It's hard enough adjusting to college and a new country, without that kind of notoriety before you even start your first day of school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

+1 Excellent. No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.

You don't know that. The boy was only 17. The friends' comments in social media could have been "Death to America". Remember the pilots for the two 9/11 flights that went into the World Trade Center came out of Logan. I would rather be safe than sorry. And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org. giving him the scholarship) were active. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

The CBP's decision was reversed, and the kid was quickly let back in, so clearly whatever the CBP person saw on Facebook wasn't that bad. We are not responsible for what people we are "friends" with post on Facebook. I have 900 Facebook friends and I check it once a month. If someone was writing offensive or violent posts, I wouldn't even know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:““When I asked every time to have my phone back so I could tell them about the situation, the officer refused and told me to sit back in [my] position and not move at all,”

There is no right to be provided entrance into the US. Whatever ‘situation’ he felt he needed to explain after a review of his computer and phone apparently was enough to bar entry while all the other student were allowed to enter.

He can explain from his home country and request to try again.

I see nothing wrong with this.

That reflects more negatively for you than anything else.

Sad.

Not the person who posted above...but I agree with them....sad that you view the world this way and have zero empathy beyond your tiny bubble. Makes you an unkind human being.

Or just a difference of opinion from yours

The fact that you don’t see that reflects on your myopic view of the world.

Sad.

[Anonymous]

CBP also sent nine Chinese students home who were headed to Arizona State.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/detained-immigrants-arizona-state-university-investigating-detainment-of-9-chinese-students-by-cbp/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

Poor kid. It's hard enough adjusting to college and a new country, without that kind of notoriety before you even start your first day of school.

Poor kid.....you an imbecile? He will be a celeb on campus. Likely the best thing that ever happened to him.

[Anonymous]

Laughing at the celebrity point. Probably right, he becomes cool to girls rebelling at Republican families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

+1 Excellent. No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.

You don't know that. The boy was only 17. The friends' comments in social media could have been "Death to America". Remember the pilots for the two 9/11 flights that went into the World Trade Center came out of Logan. I would rather be safe than sorry. And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org. giving him the scholarship) were active. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

The CBP's decision was reversed, and the kid was quickly let back in, so clearly whatever the CBP person saw on Facebook wasn't that bad. We are not responsible for what people we are "friends" with post on Facebook. I have 900 Facebook friends and I check it once a month. If someone was writing offensive or violent posts, I wouldn't even know.

Again, you don't know that. You are "assuming" facts. Harvard and AMIDEAST resolved the visa issue. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

+1 Excellent. No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.

You don't know that. The boy was only 17. The friends' comments in social media could have been "Death to America". Remember the pilots for the two 9/11 flights that went into the World Trade Center came out of Logan. I would rather be safe than sorry. And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org. giving him the scholarship) were active. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

The CBP's decision was reversed, and the kid was quickly let back in, so clearly whatever the CBP person saw on Facebook wasn't that bad. We are not responsible for what people we are "friends" with post on Facebook. I have 900 Facebook friends and I check it once a month. If someone was writing offensive or violent posts, I wouldn't even know.

Again, you don't know that. You are "assuming" facts. Harvard and AMIDEAST resolved the visa issue. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

I know that CBP allowed the kid in to the United States and that he's now taking classes. Meaning that the initial decision by the first CBP officer wasn't the correct one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This student was allowed back into the US and is already on campus and will attend classes tomorrow:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/9/3/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives/

+1 Excellent. No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.

You don't know that. The boy was only 17. The friends' comments in social media could have been "Death to America". Remember the pilots for the two 9/11 flights that went into the World Trade Center came out of Logan. I would rather be safe than sorry. And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org. giving him the scholarship) were active. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

The CBP's decision was reversed, and the kid was quickly let back in, so clearly whatever the CBP person saw on Facebook wasn't that bad. We are not responsible for what people we are "friends" with post on Facebook. I have 900 Facebook friends and I check it once a month. If someone was writing offensive or violent posts, I wouldn't even know.

Again, you don't know that. You are "assuming" facts. Harvard and AMIDEAST resolved the visa issue. Don't believe everything you read in a student newspaper.

I know that CBP allowed the kid in to the United States and that he's now taking classes. Meaning that the initial decision by the first CBP officer wasn't the correct one.

Again, you don't know that. Only one side of the story made it into the Crimson - that of the boy. HE said they looked at HIS phone and social media. We never heard the reason why an agent revoked the visa. Here's the quote, "Shortly after Ajjawi returned to Lebanon, Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Michael S. McCarthy wrote in a statement that officials had “deemed [him] inadmissible.” McCarthy did not specify the reason for the decision." So you are listening to only one side of the story from a student newspaper. I applaud all Customs agents who are just doing their job. It's not fun. Why are you insisting that he or she didn't make the "correct" decision? Maybe the kid's visa was wrong for one reason or another. Maybe he didn't look like his photo. Maybe he had stamps from other countries that made him suspect. Maybe he just didn't have the proper paperwork.