Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer who has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, said Monday that he was detained and questioned at length by Customs and Border Protection officers upon returning to the United States over the weekend.
Piker, a U.S. citizen who streams on Twitch under the name HasanAbi, said in a live stream that he was taken aside after landing at Chicago OβHare International Airport from Paris on Sunday β despite being enrolled in Global Entry, a CBP program that is supposed to give expedited clearance to βpre-approved, low-risk travelersβ returning to the U.S.
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