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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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/
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+1 Excellent.  [b]No thanks to the idiot CBP officer that made a snap judgment based on biases that cost thousands of dollars.[/quote][/b]

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  And as I said above, he wasn't deported, only his visa was revoked and both Harvard's on campus lawyers and AMIDEAST (the org.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.[/quote]

The CBP's decision was reversed, and the kid was quickly let back in, [b]so clearly whatever the CBP person saw on Facebook wasn't that bad.  [/b]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.  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

[b]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.  [/quote][/b]

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.  [/quote]

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