Travel Ban Cluster: Historian Detained/nearly Deported

[Pogo]

>> 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 arrived 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.

The university then sprang into action, the Eagle reported, with President Michael Young reaching out to law professor Fatma Marouf, who earlier this month had assisted in writing an amicus brief against President Trump’s executive order banning refugees from around the world and travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

... After weeks of headlines related to Trump's travel ban, incident drew immediate attention around the world -- especially in a France on the eve of presidential elections this coming April and May.

Emmanuel Macron, the popular centrist candidate for the French presidency, used the Rousso affair to repeat his pitch to U.S. scientists and researchers who he has said would be better off in France rather than in the America of Donald Trump.

"There is no excuse for what happened to Henry Rousso," Macron wrote Sunday on Twitter. "Our country is open to scientists and intellectuals." <<​

Irony twist next:

>> Egypt — from which Rousso and his family, as Jews, were exiled in 1956, after a slew of anti-Semitic measures imposed by the administration of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz — was not among the seven nations in the travel ban, which had been suspended by the time he arrived in the United States.

Furthermore, France is a beneficiary of the U.S. visa waiver program, which permits French citizens to enter the United States without a visa. All that is required is an online ESTA application before departure. <<​

Further irony twist:

>> Rousso’s scholarship focuses on the memory of the Vichy regime, the darkest chapter in modern French history, when the government of unoccupied France collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II. Vichy authorities are particularly infamous for assisting the Germans in rounding up and deporting tens of thousands of Jews from France during the Holocaust, which Rousso once called “the past that does not pass.” << -- US Detaiins and Nearly Deports French Holocaust Historian​

You read that right --- there is actually a George Bush International Airport. Been there myself.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Thank Islam.

 

[TNHarley]

Meh shit happens. Hope everything got worked out

 

[CatInTheSplat]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

 

[Pogo]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

 

[CatInTheSplat]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

So now you're shitting your pants when it happens to Jews too?

 

[Pogo]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

So now you're shitting your pants when it happens to Jews too?

I should add --- "no reason" other than the masturbatory aimless wankitudinal executive order of an orange freak demagogue who "loves the poorly educated" (that would be you) because you're not capable of anything deeper than superficial emotional buzzword salivation. He loves you because you're such a tool. He likes tools.

Good boy Pavlov. Pat pat. Here is biscuit.

 

[TNHarley]

Cant wait for the next EO. Hopefully this one wont have any problems.

 

[Coyote]

Thank Islam.

You spelled Trump wrong.

 

[Weatherman2020]

>> 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 arrived 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.

The university then sprang into action, the Eagle reported, with President Michael Young reaching out to law professor Fatma Marouf, who earlier this month had assisted in writing an amicus brief against President Trump’s executive order banning refugees from around the world and travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

... After weeks of headlines related to Trump's travel ban, incident drew immediate attention around the world -- especially in a France on the eve of presidential elections this coming April and May.

Emmanuel Macron, the popular centrist candidate for the French presidency, used the Rousso affair to repeat his pitch to U.S. scientists and researchers who he has said would be better off in France rather than in the America of Donald Trump.

"There is no excuse for what happened to Henry Rousso," Macron wrote Sunday on Twitter. "Our country is open to scientists and intellectuals." <<​

Irony twist next:

>> Egypt — from which Rousso and his family, as Jews, were exiled in 1956, after a slew of anti-Semitic measures imposed by the administration of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz — was not among the seven nations in the travel ban, which had been suspended by the time he arrived in the United States.

Furthermore, France is a beneficiary of the U.S. visa waiver program, which permits French citizens to enter the United States without a visa. All that is required is an online ESTA application before departure. <<​

Further irony twist:

>> Rousso’s scholarship focuses on the memory of the Vichy regime, the darkest chapter in modern French history, when the government of unoccupied France collaborated with Nazi Germany in World War II. Vichy authorities are particularly infamous for assisting the Germans in rounding up and deporting tens of thousands of Jews from France during the Holocaust, which Rousso once called “the past that does not pass.” << -- US Detaiins and Nearly Deports French Holocaust Historian​

You read that right --- there is actually a George Bush International Airport. Been there myself.

France, enough said.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Thank Islam.

You spelled Trump wrong.

No, I spelled Islam correctly. On second thought, I misspelled Islam. I capitalized the 'i'.

 

[Weatherman2020]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

What we need is more government.

 

[Pogo]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

What we need is more government.

We do huh.

-- Because we're not pointlessly detaining enough Holocaust historians?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Says he came into the US on a tourist visa to work. No-no.

 

[Weatherman2020]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

What we need is more government.

We do huh.

-- Because we're not pointlessly detaining enough Holocaust historians?

Now that Trumphitler is President I have joined the lefts call for bigger government and total gun control.

 

[Pogo]

Says he came into the US on a tourist visa to work. No-no.

No, it says nothing like that. It says French citizens can simply apply for an ESTA. Only if that application is denied do you need the option to apply for a tourist visa. There's no indication the ESTA was denied.

It's no secret that the historian was scheduled to deliver an academic lecture. It's part of the selling point for their registration process. They make that information very public.

 

[Pogo]

12,000 airports 3M visitors a day , 8 year old kids being groped at the airport, and liberals shit their pants over a few fucking Muslims being mistakenly detained each day. Good grief.

He's Jewish. And a French citizen. And was held for ten hours (after an 11-hour flight) for no reason.

Way to read the post, Dumbass.

What we need is more government.

We do huh.

-- Because we're not pointlessly detaining enough Holocaust historians?

Now that Trumphitler is President I have joined the lefts call for bigger government and total gun control.

Well alt-righty then. Rotsa ruck wit dat.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Says he came into the US on a tourist visa to work. No-no.

No, it says nothing like that. It says French citizens can simply apply for an ESTA. Only if that application is denied do you need the option to apply for a tourist visa. There's no indication the ESTA was denied.

It's no secret that the historian was scheduled to deliver an academic lecture. It's part of the selling point for their registration process. They make that information very public.

Gotta do your homework before posting.

Mr. Rousso said he was interrogated by Customs and Border Protection officers who told him that he was violating immigration law by using a tourist visa to enter the country to attend the academic conference. He said that at first they denied him entry to the United States, and told him he would be put on the next available flight to Paris.

The issue, Mr. Rousso said, appeared to be an honorarium of $2,000 that he was being paid to participate in the conference. Such payments are allowed for academics visiting the United States, but Mr. Rousso and those involved in securing his release said the customs agents appeared not to realize that at first.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/french-historian-detained-immigration-henry-rousso.html

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Is this worse than the TSA detaining 90 year olds in wheel chairs to search their diapers?

With the number of people treated badly in the last 10 years sympathy for a foreigner is in short supply.

 

[Pogo]

Says he came into the US on a tourist visa to work. No-no.

No, it says nothing like that. It says French citizens can simply apply for an ESTA. Only if that application is denied do you need the option to apply for a tourist visa. There's no indication the ESTA was denied.

It's no secret that the historian was scheduled to deliver an academic lecture. It's part of the selling point for their registration process. They make that information very public.

Gotta do your homework before posting.

Mr. Rousso said he was interrogated by Customs and Border Protection officers who told him that he was violating immigration law by using a tourist visa to enter the country to attend the academic conference. He said that at first they denied him entry to the United States, and told him he would be put on the next available flight to Paris.

The issue, Mr. Rousso said, appeared to be an honorarium of $2,000 that he was being paid to participate in the conference. Such payments are allowed for academics visiting the United States, but Mr. Rousso and those involved in securing his release said the customs agents appeared not to realize that at first.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/us/french-historian-detained-immigration-henry-rousso.html

Fuck you. I ain't required to go find other links for minutiae that you might bring up thinking you have a point. I came with a link, I posted it, and no it does NOT say anything like what you indicated. PERIOD.

Furthermore your own post proves you wrong anyway. An honorarium is not "wages". Nor is there any proscription on attending a conference --- which is also not "work" ---- on a tourist visa.

Your own post.