British Muslim teacher denied entry to US on school trip

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Source: The Guardian

British Muslim teacher denied entry to US on school trip

Juhel Miah from south Wales was removed from plane
in Reykjavik despite suspension of president’s travel ban

Steven Morris
Monday 20 February 2017 20.18 GMT

A British Muslim schoolteacher travelling to New York last week as a member of a school party from south Wales was denied entry to the United States.

Juhel Miah and a group of children and other teachers were about to take off from Iceland on 16 February on their way to the US when he was removed from the plane at Reykjavik. The previous week, on the 10 February, a US appeals court had upheld a decision to suspend Donald Trump’s executive order that temporarily banned entry to the country from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The trip proceeded as planned but pupils and colleagues from Llangatwg comprehensive in Aberdulais were left shocked and distressed after the maths teacher, who had valid visa documentation, was escorted from the aircraft by security personnel.

Miah, 25, from Swansea, said he was made to feel like a criminal and was so worried by what happened to him that he did not eat or sleep for two days. He told Wales Online that shortly before the flight was due to leave he was approached by an official who told him he could not board the plane.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/20/british-muslim-teacher-denied-entry-to-us-on-school-trip

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1. The stories I've been seeing, are heartbreaking.

I am deeply troubled by the fact that, for every story we read, God knows how many that we don't know about.