Gestapo detained famous French historian for 10 hours at Houston Itl Airport .

[dixiegrrrrl]

Why is he famous you ask?
This distinguished historian's specialty is...Vichy France. And the Holocaust.

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International scholar visiting Texas A&M "mistakenly detained" by customs officials

A visiting scholar to Texas A&M was detained by customs officials in Houston this week while on his way to speak at a symposium in Aggieland, officials said Friday at the conference.
Henry Rousso was flying in from Paris to participate in the Hagler Institute Symposium when he was “mistakenly detained” Wednesday evening upon his arrival, according to Richard Golsan, director of the Melbern G. 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,” said Golsan during his introduction to the session which Rousso was set to participate in.

His work centers on the history and memory of traumatic pasts, France in WWII and the post-war period, his profile on the CNRS website says.
Rousso's current study involves the relationship between history, memory and justice.

http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/international-scholar-visiting-texas-a-m-mistakenly-detained-by-customs/article_b4153a96-fad7-11e6-8c7d-bb567fe94e17.html#.WLHO8UVwHXA.twitter

His "crime" ???
He was born an Egyptian.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. No one is gonna want to come here.

Art and culture and family emergencies and jobs, will be abandoned in the face of Trump's illegal behavior.
God, we need the courts to get moving on this crap.

Actually, I am rather shaken by these stories.

[suffragette]

6. Add international and exchange students to the list. I can't imagine parents feeling comfortable

Sending their children, even college age ones, here at this time.

And many who are now here will likely leave.

Who could blame them, in the hate-filled environment Trump has unleashed?

[KingCharlemagne]

18. I told all my international students -- many of them Saudi --

to leave before January 20, since there was no way to guarantee their safety or security after that date. It appears my worst fears have yet to pass -- no mass roundups yet -- but we are only 5 weeks in.

[suffragette]

22. It's a tremendous loss in exchange of ideas and culture toward better understanding.

There is also the insidious federalizing of state police by having them carry out formerly federal immigration duties, especially in regard to deporting Latinos.

And as you note, we are only 5 weeks in.

[LisaL]

15. And then we wouldn't need a wall.

[moonscape]

20. And I barely want to be here. n/t

[sarcasmo]

21. Tourism down 7% and internet tourism searches down 17%.

The Trillion dollar tourism business is history.

[uppityperson]

2. K&R for wtf

[Initech]

3. This travel ban is illegal and immoral and wrong and completely unconstitutional.

[TeamPooka]

4. Border Patrol and INS went full Nazi on people real fast huh? Brown shirts in waiting apparently.

The enemy is us.

[grantcart]

24. INS no longer exists and Border Patrol agents are not active at ports of entry

These actions were conducted by Customs Officers. The union representing Customs Officers, the NTEU opposed Trump and endorsed Sec. Clinton.

This is an example of an incompetent administration giving confusing and unconstitutional orders creating confusion to agents at the ports. Blame the chef not the ingredients.

https://www.nteu.org/media-center/news-releases/2016/04/13/nteu-endorses-hillary-clinton-for-presid

[Hulk]

5. Houston Int'l is Nazi Central.

Posted numerous times. It is Fox-stupid. Nazi Central is not much of an exaggeration.

[world wide wally]

7. We have devolved from the "Shining City on the Hill" to the dregs in the sewer where nobody wants to

go anymore.

Thanks, deplorables

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. The idiots love this stuff. I hope nobody comes here, not one person, until

we restore democracy.

[suffragette]

8. As Rousso notes: "United States is no longer quite the United States."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26/u-s-detains-and-nearly-deports-french-jewish-historian/?utm_term=.4e16ec67ff59

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.
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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.”
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“It is now necessary to deal with the utmost arbitrariness and incompetence on the other side of the Atlantic,” Rousso wrote Sunday in the French edition of the Huffington Post. “What I know, in loving this country forever, is that the United States is no longer quite the United States.”

[OldHippieChick]

9. This is so embarrassing. How can we possibly apologize to

the rest of the world. Heaven help us.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Well, for starters, he is on Twitter

so I tweeted an apology.
What if he got 100.s of them?

[tblue37]

11. What is even worse is that these outrages continue despite the judicial stay

that supposedly suspended enforcement of the travel restrictions and ban.

I would love to see these jackbooted thugs hauled up on contempt charges.

[OldHippieChick]

13. I'm still hoping to hear something

about a lawsuit concerning the detention of Muhammed Ali's son.

[LisaL]

14. This guy shouldn't have been affected by the travel restrictions to begin with.

He is not from any of the banned countries. He is not Muslim.
Yet they were going to refuse to let him in just the same. Somebody had to interfere on his behalf for him to even be let into the country.

[DFW]

12. On December 26th, they already detained my German wife, who was traveling with me.

That was a "mistake," too, and although they didn't admit it or apologize, when her case was reviewed an hour later, it took the superior officer less than a minute to see that her detention was total bullshit. She had been detained due to a "fingerprint mismatch," even though she showed them the same fingers she had showed them since they started asking to see them.

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. I had a mental flash that all this might be field exercises....

Don't like the implication of that, but it stubbornly stays in my mind, and I tend to have pretty good hunches.
yiick.

[lpbk2713]

16. It's embarrassing for visitors to be confronted with this.

To say the very least considering all they have to endure.

Just imagine. Someone travels for hours from another culture and this is the first face
of America they see. The stupid is almost tactile. And that impression lasts forever.

[LisaL]

17. This particular individual has been to US many times prior.

[malaise]

19. When will the Judicial Branch enforce its ruling

This is madness - who refunds people their ticket money and hotel money?

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. Interesting question, kiddo..

That was a Federal Judge..9th Circuit, i think....so what happens when someone refuses to obey a court order?
usually the Marshall take them into custody for contempt of court.
but when the President dis-obeys a court order....hmmmm.
Ya know, if any President did that, it would be Trump, esp. with Bannon in his ear. They have been dropping hints of Presidential power, and even this week's sudden "extreme vetting" and deportations is over the line.

I think we are gonna be tested, and hard.

[rzemanfl]

28. Your post gave me this thought, does trip insurance cover this type of thing and if so,

will insurers continue to write it?

[malaise]

31. I really don't know

Will try to find answers tomorrow

[rzemanfl]

33. I didn't mean to assign homework. I will see if I can find anything myself. n/t

[malaise]

34. I need to find out for myself - homework is good but it's Oscars tonight

[rzemanfl]

35. I did it for you. The answer is "no" unless you can cancel before you leave-

http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/faqs/does-travel-insurance-cover-visa-problems/

Enjoy the Oscars.

[malaise]

36. Thanks

Love the ACLU blue ribbons that some actors are wearing

[rzemanfl]

37. My wife is watching and I saw that when I passed by. n/t

[Solly Mack]

25. K&R

[dalton99a]

27. Kick.

[RandySF]

30. BP is the new NYPD.

[appleannie1943]

32. No one will want to come here for any reason, not even business. The tourist industry will hit

bottom, along with all the crops that will rot in the fields.

[Lucinda]

38. KNR