Headline Roundup • August 27th, 2019

Incoming Palestinian Harvard Student Deemed Inadmissible by CBP

Immigration,Harvard,Palestine,Deportations,Higher Education,Boston

Summary from the AllSides News Team

17-year-old Ismail Ajjawi, an incoming Harvard freshman from Lebanon, was questioned at Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, who deemed him to be "inadmissible." Reporting outlets are focusing on Ajjawi's allegation that CBP officers sent him back to Lebanon due to posts from his social media friends expressing "political points of view that oppose the US." Ajjawi's statement first appeared in the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. This story has been updated to include coverage from an outlet with a right/right-leaning AllSides Media Bias Rating.

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Incoming Palestinian Harvard freshman has his visa REVOKED at Boston airport after he was 'questioned for five hours and officials found anti-US political social media posts by his friends'

Daily Mail

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An incoming Harvard freshman from Palestine was allegedly interrogated by immigration officials for five painstaking hours then had his visa rescinded after landing in Boston because they found his friends on social media shared anti-US political posts.

Ismail B. Ajjawi, a 17-year-old Palestinian student who lives in Tyre, Lebanon, landed at Boston Logan International airport on Friday night in anticipation of starting his freshman year at Harvard University.

But his Ivy League career, in which he intended to study in Chemical and Physical Biology, ended before it even began when...

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A Palestinian Freshman Arrived in the U.S. to Study at Harvard. Immigration Officials Revoked His Visa and Deported Him.

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A Palestinian Freshman Arrived in the U.S. to Study at Harvard. Immigration Officials Revoked His Visa and Deported Him.

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With classes scheduled to start next week, incoming Harvard freshman Ismail B. Ajjawi, like many of his fellow students, was set to arrive on campus for the first time this week. But the 17-year-old Palestinian’s hard-won education at perhaps the world’s preeminent university is now in doubt. American immigration officials stopped Ajjawi, a Palestinian resident of Tyre, Lebanon, at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, the Crimson reports, where he was held in custody for eight hours and subjected to invasive questioning by a female immigration officer, who then...

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Harvard freshman deported after officials review friends' social media posts: report

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U.S. officials turned away a 17-year-old Palestinian incoming Harvard freshman last week after he was questioned about his friends’ social media posts, according to the Harvard Crimson.

The 17-year-old, a resident of Tyre, Lebanon, was deported about eight hours after arriving at Logan International Airport in Boston and said in a written statement obtained by the Crimson that immigration officials questioned him for hours and searched his phone and computer.

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