A Harvard’s new student denied entry into US over social media posts by his friends
Published


A foreign student who has just been admitted to Harvard University has been denied entry into the United States over some posts traced to his social media friends.

As reported by Washington Post on Wednesday, Palestinian Ismail Ajjawi arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, but immigration officials detained him for eight hours.
After interrogating the 17-year-old and searching his phone and computer, they revoked his visa and sent him back home
Harvard’s new student denied entry into US over social media posts by his friends
Published
A foreign student who has just been admitted to Harvard University has been denied entry into the United States over some posts traced to his social media friends.

As reported by Washington Post on Wednesday, Palestinian Ismail Ajjawi arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, but immigration officials detained him for eight hours.

After interrogating the 17-year-old and searching his phone and computer, they revoked his visa and sent him back home.

Speaking on the incident, an immigration officer said she “found people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S.,” though she discovered nothing Ajjawi had posted himself.

Lamenting his ordeal, Ajjawi said, “After the five hours ended, she called me into a room, and she started screaming at me.

“She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.
“I responded that I have no business with such posts and that I didn’t like, share or comment on them and told her that I shouldn’t be held responsible for what others post.”

Then Ajjawi’s visa was revoked and he returned to Lebanon.
Harvard spokesman Jonathan L. Swain told the medium in an emailed statement: “The university is working closely with the student’s family and appropriate authorities to resolve this matters so that he can join his classmates in the coming days;” as classes begin September 3.
In response, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Michael McCarthy, said the department was “responsible for ensuring the safety and admissibility of the goods and people entering the United States.”

“Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S. by overcoming all grounds of inadmissibility, including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds.

“This individual was deemed inadmissible to the United States based on information discovered during the CBP inspection,” he added.

Every position with his own power... once you're traveling get a new laptop a new phone even a new wears... that's the koko to avoid story that touch

abeniagbon:
Every position with his own power... once you're traveling get a new laptop a new phone even a new wears... that's the koko to avoid story that touch

Your online name and details should be different from your real ones if.you are troublesome or keep company with troublesome fellows

There's this saying that goes thus 'show me your friends and I will tell you who you are'.
Even though he never said anything, he was incriminated by implication.
It serves him right. He has missed his chance of studying in one of the most prestigious universities in the world located in the most powerful country in the world.

All those Russian lovers on nairaland should forget America.

It still baffles me how those in the middle east insist you follow their culture and live strictly by what their religion says without regard for your choice or fundamental rights but insist on the same fundamental rights when they find themselves in the west.

abeniagbon:
Every position with his own power... once you're traveling get a new laptop a new phone even a new wears... that's the koko to avoid story that touch

This is nonsense .

Benlight:
It still baffles me how those in the middle east insist you follow their culture and live strictly by what their religion says without regard for your choice or fundamental rights but insist on the same fundamental rights when they find themselves in the west.

Unfortunately. You have never been to the Middle East in your whole miserable life !
But you spew trash online as if you wrote the laws of the Middle East . Dumb mofo!

ValCon888:
There's this saying that goes thus 'show me your friends and I will tell you who you are'.
Even though he never said anything, he was incriminated by implication.
It serves him right. He has missed his chance of studying in one of the most prestigious universities in the world located in the most powerful country in the world.

Your comment is not well processed. He said he had nothing to do with it. Got bunch of friends on FB that I don't hang out with or whatever and they post stuffs. Some I had to delete and some I just scroll down. So, you say I am guilty for what they post. There is also this saying.. "A MAN is INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY". A man and not some shit your "friend" that you might not even roll with does.

Eya

ayaside:

Your comment is not well processed. He said he had nothing to do with it. Got bunch of friends on FB that I don't hang out with or whatever and they post stuffs. Some I had to delete and some I just scroll down. So, you say I am guilty for what they post. There is also this saying.. "A MAN is INNOCENT until PROVEN GUILTY". A man and not some shit your "friend" that you might not even roll with does.

This is an issue that deals with American security. You think they care if you had nothing to do with it? You're funny. The fact that you have friends who post such shìt means you condone it by implication whether you hang out with them or not.
BTW, your comment is not well processed. In certain jurisdictions a man is guilty until proven innocent.

Biritiko:

Unfortunately. You have never been to the Middle East in your whole miserable life !
But you spew trash online as if you wrote the laws of the Middle East . Dumb mofo!

Can you please state a proven fact.
Remember, am not in support or against what he has written but just wish to get the fact straightened up. We learn everyday you know

ValCon888:
There's this saying that goes thus 'show me your friends and I will tell you who you are'.
Even though he never said anything, he was incriminated by implication.
It serves him right. He has missed his chance of studying in one of the most prestigious universities in the world located in the most powerful country in the world.

What do you mean "it serves him right".?

A Terrorist in the first stage of denial...

geezynoni:

What do you mean "it serves him right".?

He didn't value the Harvard education or studying in the US. If he did, he wouldn't keep such friends.

jamachi:



A Harvard’s new student denied entry into US over social media posts by his friends
Published


A foreign student who has just been admitted to Harvard University has been denied entry into the United States over some posts traced to his social media friends.

As reported by Washington Post on Wednesday, Palestinian Ismail Ajjawi arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, but immigration officials detained him for eight hours.
After interrogating the 17-year-old and searching his phone and computer, they revoked his visa and sent him back home
Harvard’s new student denied entry into US over social media posts by his friends
Published
A foreign student who has just been admitted to Harvard University has been denied entry into the United States over some posts traced to his social media friends.

As reported by Washington Post on Wednesday, Palestinian Ismail Ajjawi arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Friday night, but immigration officials detained him for eight hours.

After interrogating the 17-year-old and searching his phone and computer, they revoked his visa and sent him back home.

Speaking on the incident, an immigration officer said she “found people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S.,” though she discovered nothing Ajjawi had posted himself.

Lamenting his ordeal, Ajjawi said, “After the five hours ended, she called me into a room, and she started screaming at me.

“She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the US on my friend[s] list.
“I responded that I have no business with such posts and that I didn’t like, share or comment on them and told her that I shouldn’t be held responsible for what others post.”

Then Ajjawi’s visa was revoked and he returned to Lebanon.
Harvard spokesman Jonathan L. Swain told the medium in an emailed statement: “The university is working closely with the student’s family and appropriate authorities to resolve this matters so that he can join his classmates in the coming days;” as classes begin September 3.
In response, spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Michael McCarthy, said the department was “responsible for ensuring the safety and admissibility of the goods and people entering the United States.”

“Applicants must demonstrate they are admissible into the U.S. by overcoming all grounds of inadmissibility, including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons, public charge, labor certification, illegal entrants and immigration violations, documentation requirements, and miscellaneous grounds.

“This individual was deemed inadmissible to the United States based on information discovered during the CBP inspection,” he added.

thanks for this piece of information

TSRC:
All those Russian lovers on nairaland should forget America.

Wetin wan carry me go Amerika in the first instance? There are tens of European Countries that are far better than Amerika in all indexes.

A useless Country where 3000 of her citizens were deliberately slaughtered like cockroaches on September 911 by the government, in collaboration with the Israeli Mossad - just to brainwash the dumb citizens into establishing "The Department of Homeland & Security" through which hundreds of billions of dollars is being siphoned annually in the guise of prosecuting a fantom "War of Terror".

A cursed Country whose prospect of looting Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and all other enemy Countries to death remains forever her core mission.

An abominable Country that parades herself as the Land of Freedom & a force for the good of mankind when she has always been a proponent of shameful miscarriage of Justice right from the inception.

A dying empire that specializes in psychological projection whereby she accuses her opponents of crimes that the United Snakes of Amerika is guilty of to the Nth degree..

A government of arrogance, hubris, hypocrisy, exceptionalism, narcissism, ignorance and paranoia ….. with nukes.

The best predictor of the future is past behavior.

If you want to know what Amerika and the West have in store for you, just look at what they have *already* done to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, or even Ukraine - all nations that the self-styled leaders of the Free World have raped and ravaged.



A Roman historian once said about the Roman Empire: They create a desert and call it peace.


Today, with respect to the Amerikan Empire and her democratic allies, this should be updated as: They create a failed state and call it freedom.

The crimes of Amerika are innumerable but only few have the courage & boldness to talk about them - lest, they send the CIA (cocaine importing agency) to come & murder you & your family.

Yes! A lot of ignorant dundees are dying to travel to Amerika, but for me - sorry, I'll pass!

Zoharariel:


Wetin wan carry me go Amerika in the first instance? There are tens of European Countries that are far better than Amerika in all indexes.

A useless Country where 3000 of her citizens were deliberately slaughtered like cockroaches on September 911 by the government, in collaboration with the Israeli Mossad - just to brainwash the dumb citizens into establishing "The Department of Homeland & Security" through which hundreds of billions of dollars is being siphoned annually in the guise of prosecuting a fantom "War of Terrorist".

A cursed Country whose prospect of looting Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and all other enemy Countries to death remains forever her core mission.

An abominable Country that parades herself as the Land of Freedom & a force for the good of mankind when she has always been a proponent of shameful miscarriage of Justice right from the inception.

A dying empire that specializes in psychological projection whereby she accuses her opponents of crimes that the United Snakes of Amerika is guilty of to the Nth degree..

A government of arrogance, hubris, hypocrisy, exceptionalism, narcissism, ignorance and paranoia ….. with nukes.

The best predictor of the future is past behavior.

If you want to know what Amerika and the West have in store for you, just look at what they have *already* done to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, or even Ukraine - all nations that the self-styled leaders of the Free World have raped and ravaged.

A Roman historian once said about the Roman Empire: They create a desert and call it peace.


Today, with respect to the Amerikan Empire and her democratic allies, this should be updated as: They create a failed state and call it freedom.

The crimes of Amerika are innumerable but only few have the courage & boldness to talk about them - less, they send the CIA (cocaine importing agency) to come & murder you & your family.

Yes! A lot of ignorant dundees are dying to travel to Amerika, but for me - sorry, I'll pass!

hahahaha. Bad guy. I hope they won't deny me visa someday for liking dis comment

Benlight:
It still baffles me how those in the middle east insist you follow their culture and live strictly by what their religion says without regard for your choice or fundamental rights but insist on the same fundamental rights when they find themselves in the west.

Don't mind them.

Benlight:
It still baffles me how those in the middle east insist you follow their culture and live strictly by what their religion says without regard for your choice or fundamental rights but insist on the same fundamental rights when they find themselves in the west.

Yet, it does not baffle you that US Immigration had no concern whatsoever for this 17 year old's "choice or fundamental rights" and "insist he follow their culture and live strictly by what" they say?

There's a word for your sort. Know what it is?

budaatum:

Yet, it does not baffle you that US Immigration had no concern whatsoever for this 17 year old's "choice or fundamental rights" and "insist he follow their culture and live strictly by what" they say?

There's a word for your sort. Know what it is?

Hypodiots

Good riddance

This is very wrong! Legally and morally wrong!

All these MOOSLIMES using funny names to hide their identity on NL. Why doesn't this one call himself by his real name like Mukaila or Kabiru? Which one is Britiko? Saying that one has to visit the middle east in order to experience it, is like saying that someone needs to taste SH-IT before knowing that it is bad for your health.

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Biritiko:

Unfortunately. You have never been to the Middle East in your whole miserable life !
But you spew trash online as if you wrote the laws of the Middle East . Dumb mofo!

EkunKekere:
All these MOOSLIMES using funny names to hide their identity on NL. Why doesn't this one call himself by his real name like Mukaila or Kabiru? Which one is Britiko? Saying that one has to visit the middle east in order to experience it, is like saying that someone needs to taste SH-IT before knowing that it is bad for your health.

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No, you don't have to taste shit to know it is bad for you, but in not tasting shit you are just speaking out of ignorance of shit without any knowledge of the shit that you speak of.

P.s. More than all Nigerian young want to migrate.

Zoharariel:


Wetin wan carry me go Amerika in the first instance? There are tens of European Countries that are far better than Amerika in all indexes.

A useless Country where 3000 of her citizens were deliberately slaughtered like cockroaches on September 911 by the government, in collaboration with the Israeli Mossad - just to brainwash the dumb citizens into establishing "The Department of Homeland & Security" through which hundreds of billions of dollars is being siphoned annually in the guise of prosecuting a fantom "War of Terror".

A cursed Country whose prospect of looting Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and all other enemy Countries to death remains forever her core mission.

An abominable Country that parades herself as the Land of Freedom & a force for the good of mankind when she has always been a proponent of shameful miscarriage of Justice right from the inception.

A dying empire that specializes in psychological projection whereby she accuses her opponents of crimes that the United Snakes of Amerika is guilty of to the Nth degree..

A government of arrogance, hubris, hypocrisy, exceptionalism, narcissism, ignorance and paranoia ….. with nukes.

The best predictor of the future is past behavior.

If you want to know what Amerika and the West have in store for you, just look at what they have *already* done to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, or even Ukraine - all nations that the self-styled leaders of the Free World have raped and ravaged.



A Roman historian once said about the Roman Empire: They create a desert and call it peace.


Today, with respect to the Amerikan Empire and her democratic allies, this should be updated as: They create a failed state and call it freedom.

The crimes of Amerika are innumerable but only few have the courage & boldness to talk about them - lest, they send the CIA (cocaine importing agency) to come & murder you & your family.

Yes! A lot of ignorant dundees are dying to travel to Amerika, but for me - sorry, I'll pass!

I saw a post somewhere where a statement was issued to apologize that the accused suspect in the 9/11 wasn't the one responsible for the incident... How sad if it's true

Biritiko:

Unfortunately. You have never been to the Middle East in your whole miserable life !
But you spew trash online as if you wrote the laws of the Middle East . Dumb mofo!

God forbid.
When afgans, Syrians, Iraqis, Iranians are all fleeing the middle to the West, why should I dream of going to the middle east. No peace in their countries, Western Christian countries take them in yet all they do is call them kafirs, unbelievers and seek ways to kill and cause destruction in the name of jihad. Yall need to change your ways, violent folks.

budaatum:

Yet, it does not baffle you that US Immigration had no concern whatsoever for this 17 year old's "choice or fundamental rights" and "insist he follow their culture and live strictly by what" they say?

There's a word for your sort. Know what it is?

He should remain in his country and enjoy his sharia rights. Period

Benlight:

He should remain in his country and enjoy his sharia rights. Period

Maybe he should have, but he didn't. No way were some useless "friends" going to ruin his future.

A Palestinian student who was controversially denied entry to the US last month when he arrived to begin study at Harvard has now been admitted.

Ismail Ajjawi said he was barred entry after border agents questioned him for hours at Boston Airport over social media posts written by friends.

The 17-year-old was admitted on Monday just in time to start at Harvard.

The US state department announced in June that most visa applicants were being asked for social media details.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49563339