A Muslim-American mayor of a New Jersey town says border patrol wrongfully detained him and asked if he met with terrorists after he returned from a vacation in Turkey last month
A Muslim-American mayor of a New Jersey town says border patrol agents wrongfully detained him and kept his phone when he arrived at JFK International Airport last month after returning from a vacation in Turkey.
Mohamed Khairullah, the mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey since 2005, told CNN he was pulled aside and detained for three hours by US Customs and Border Protection agents when he and his family got off the plane.The questioning started out innocently enough — a CBP agent asked him standard questions like about where he traveled from and who he visited.
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