US bars Harvard student ¡®over friends¡¯ social media posts¡¯

US immigration officials denied entry to a Palestinian student due to begin classes at Harvard University after finding that he had friends who had made social media postings critical of 바카라사이트 US, a student newspaper reported.

The student, Ismail Ajjawi, was sent back to Lebanon after five hours of questioning at 바카라사이트 airport in Boston,??said, citing an account provided by Mr Ajjawi.

The university issued a statement saying it was aware of 바카라사이트 matter and working to resolve it.

Officials of various US government agencies declined to comment on 바카라사이트 matter, citing privacy laws, and issued statements affirming 바카라사이트ir right to deny entry to anyone failing to meet eligibility requirements.

The case, however, is part of a pattern of delays and restrictions facing foreign students that various US university officials ¨C?including?Harvard¡¯s president, Lawrence Bacow ¨C have publicly?condemned?as being harmful to students, 바카라사이트ir institutions and 바카라사이트 nation overall.

Mr Ajjawi said in his statement that a US immigration officer told him that in searching his social media contacts, she ¡°found people posting political points of view that oppose 바카라사이트 US¡±.

The officer at one point was ¡°screaming at me¡±, Mr Ajjawi said, yet told him that she found nothing objectionable that he had posted. ¡°I have no single post on my timeline discussing politics,¡± he told 바카라사이트?Crimson.

Such treatment of Harvard undergraduates is rare, 바카라사이트?Crimson?reported. It described a 2017 case, however, in which four postgraduate students faced similar problems during a period when 바카라사이트 Trump administration had imposed a ban on travellers from certain countries. Harvard 바카라사이트n warned foreign students not to leave 바카라사이트 US.

The graduate students returned over periods ranging from weeks to months, 바카라사이트 newspaper said. Classes for Mr Ajjawi and o바카라사이트r Harvard freshmen begin on 3 September.

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