The 17-year-old was taken aside by immigration officers who he says detained him for eight hours, questioned him about his friends’ social-media activity, and then deported him
Photo: Paul Giamou/Getty Images/Aurora Creative Shortly after landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport on Friday night, on his way to begin his freshman year at Harvard University, 17-year-old Ismail B. Ajjawi was taken aside by immigration officers who he says detained him for eight hours, questioned him about his friends’ social-media activity, and then deported him.
“She said that she found people posting political points of view that oppose the U.S. on my friend[s] list,” he told the Crimson.
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