A British Muslim family was kicked off a flight to Disneyland reportedly because a Facebook account linked to their address listed job titles as “supervisor at Taliban and leader at al-Qaeda” – and because a family member had previously been barred from Israel.
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He said he had never had any problem travelling on that visa before, and feared the USA was targeting Muslims. The family said it spent 9,000 pounds (some $13,500) on their tickets, and that it was not refunded.
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Today Mr Mahmood said he was “devastated” and revealed the decision had left his children in tears.
Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, has written to Prime Minister David Cameron about the family’s treatment but Hopkins dismissed her as a “whinging…blond-bobbed maniac”.
The issue is sensitive in part because US presidential contender Donald Trump has called for a temporary ban on Muslims visiting the USA due to concerns about extremist attacks.
No explanation was given to the family except the information that the request to deny them permission to board came from U.S. Homeland Security officials.
But the CBP spokesman said, “The religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs of an worldwide traveler are not determining factors about his/her admissibility into the U.S”.
But he told the Guardian newspaper he believed it was because USA officials “think every Muslim poses a threat”.
“Widespread condemnation of Donald Trump’s call for no Muslim to be allowed into America contrasts with what is going on in practice”, she wrote.
Mr Mahmood speculated that could have been the reason they were flagged to United States authorities.
And she said she has hit a “brick wall” in her efforts to get answers from the USA embassy in London.
“We don’t know how many families are affected and what monitoring they do”.
“They can’t react like that just because we are Muslim”.
Mr Mahmood was travelling with his brother and nine of their children to visit cousins in Southern California, where they would have visited Disneyland and Universal Studios.
David Cameron, British Prime Minister has promised to investigate the cases and respond “in due course”.
He had earlier characterized Mr Trump’s policy as “divisive and wrong”.
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“If you imagine if an American citizen was told by a British official they couldn’t board a plane, there would be complete uproar in the United States of America”, he said. “[Federal law lists] more than 60 grounds of inadmissibility divided into several major categories, including health-related, prior criminal convictions, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds”.
