Canadian Muslim grilled about her faith and view on Trump at US border stop

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Canadian Muslim grilled about her faith and view on Trump at US border stop
The case raises concerns that border patrol agents are targeting minorities more broadly in the wake of Donald Trump’s travel ban


Concerns that US border patrol agents are targeting minorities have grown in the wake of Donald Trump’s executive order blocking refugees and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entry into the US.

The order caused chaos at US ports of entry when it was enacted two weeks ago and though a federal court has blocked it from being enforced, claims of aggressive, and potentially illegal, treatment have lingered.

This week, Canadian citizen Fadwa Alaoui said she was denied entry to the US after border officials asked probing questions about her Muslim faith and her views on Trump.

Alaoui was born in Morocco but has lived in Canada for more than 20 years, traveling to the US regularly to visit family. But on her way to Vermont for a day of shopping with two of her children and an adult cousin, she was stopped for four hours at the border.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/canadian-muslim-us-border-questioning?CMP=edit_2221