U.S. detains and nearly deports French Holocaust historian

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Washington Post

PARIS — Henry Rousso is one of France’s most preeminent scholars and public intellectuals. Last week, as the historian attempted to enter the United States to attend an academic symposium, he was detained for more than 10 hours — for no clear reason.

On Wednesday, Rousso at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport after an 11-hour flight from Paris, en route to Texas A&M University in College Station. There, he was to speak Friday afternoon at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study.

But things did not go according to plan: Rousso — an Egyptian-born French citizen — was “mistakenly detained” by U.S. immigration authorities, according to Richard Golsan, director of the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research at Texas A&M.

“When he called me with this news two nights ago, he was waiting for customs officials to send him back to Paris as an illegal alien on the first flight out,” Golsan said Friday at the symposium, according to the Eagle, a newspaper that covers the College Station area.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-detains-and-nearly-deports-french-holocaust-historian/ar-AAnrh0I?li=BBnb4R7

[dalton99a]

1. USA! USA! USA!

Here are the details (in French - basically the idiots gave him a hard time about why he had a tourist visa instead of a work visa, asked him the same questions over and over about his family etc.):

http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/henry-rousso/muslim-ban-donald-trump-etats-unis/

[left-of-center2012]

2. Recently they detained Muhammad Ali's son

He's a U.S. citizen, born in the U.S.A.

Although the ban is supposed to not be religious, they kept asking him "Are you a Muslim?"

[TomCADem]

3. "Those Were Your Words! I Was Using Your Words!"

nt

[dalton99a]

4. Probably the same thing happened when they saw Rousso's birthplace in his French passport

[Leghorn21]

5. Small world - as I cruised L. Mensch's tweets today, this fellow appeared:

Henry Rousso
@Henry_Rousso

I confirm. I have been detained 10 hours at Houston Itl Airport about to be deported. The officer who arrested me was "inexperienced" twitter.com/ruthbenghiat/s…

5:01 PM - 25 Feb 2017

- - Clicking on it, I could see he writes mostly in French (mais oui), but in one tweet in English, he said he would write more later about his Houston experience -

So, so embarrassed for our country. Tres.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. He "fit the description".

Just like every black walking down the street minding their own business. That's how the U.S. rolls.

[yardwork]

7. I can't think of anything to say but a string of swear words and that gets old.

I will say that we need to get these fuckers out of power, and that will take pulling together as Democrats to force the Republicans out of power, at all levels of government, from the local school boards to the White House and everything in between.

[bronxiteforever]

8. I am with you 100%!

Everyday is a new cruelty inflicted on someone by these rat bastards.