An Iranian-born woman held at the Canadian border for 11 hours tells her story
The Iranian Canadian woman didn’t start scribbling notes about what was happening at the border crossing until close to midnight.
It had all begun when the 30-something and U.S. green card holder had offered to drive her mother back to Vancouver, B.C., after the holidays.
By Saturday, she and her partner, both of whom asked not to be named for this story, had started making their way back to the U.S. She hoped to be back in Bellevue by Monday for her job as a software engineer at Microsoft.
But when the two women arrived at the U.S.-Canada border in Blaine, Washington, an officer handed them an orange paper with the words “multiple inspection referral” written on it. That was approximately 5 p.m. They would not be free to go for 11 hours.
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