Yassmin Abdel-Magied says 'I'm being deported' from US
Author says officials in America took her phone and cancelled her visa as she entered country to attend New York event
Guardian staff
Thu 12 Apr 2018 10.05 AESTLast modified on Thu 12 Apr 2018 11.39 AEST
Yassmin Abdel-Magied says she is being deported from the US. Photograph: Simon Hewson/Courtesy of Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Australian author and TV personality
Yassmin Abdel-Magied has said on social media that she is being deported from the US.
On Twitter, Abdel-Magied was advertising her appearance at the PEN World Voices festival in New York, speaking on a panel titled “The M Word: No country for young Muslim Women”. But her tweet offered the caveat: “If they will let me in. I’m currently at the border and they’ve said I’m being deported. This should be fun. What are my rights?”
The author said that three hours after touching down in Minneapolis, she was put back on a plane without possession of her passport. The Guardian understands she is being returned to Amsterdam, from where she had come.
It appears border security officials rejected her admission to the US because of the type of visa she was travelling on.
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