Doctor detained for 5 hours by US border patrol was grilled about his tribe chief
Sardar Ahmad, a Canadian doctor from Afghanistan, was stopped at the U.S. border and was held for five hours for questioning before ultimately being denied entry into the country, the Sarnia Observer reported.
Ahmad was born in Afghanistan but left more than a decade ago when he received a Fulbright scholarship and moved to the United States. In 2007, he moved to Canada and later became a citizen there. Ahmad made a trip to Michigan on Friday after realizing his Nexus card had been revoked. The Nexus program offers expedited border crossing between Canada and the U.S. for pre-approved individuals.
When he arrived at the border crossing at Blue Water Bridge, where he explained the situation to border officials, Ahmad’s keys were taken away and he was held and questioned for over five hours about his life prior to leaving Afghanistan.
He said he was asked about his “tribe” and the name of his “tribe chief” and whether he had seen “a lot of gunmen” growing up in Afghanistan.When Ahmad asked border officials to make a call to his clinic to cancel his patients he was told he could not touch the phone.
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