Posted on 07/04/2013 7:32:29 AM PDT by yldstrk
Chip Cantor told his story .... On June 4, he told KMBC he was traveling to Britain to visit and gain summer work experience, and to participate in a fundraiser for a child who has cancer. He left Kansas City on Wednesday, May 29, landed in Britain after 10 p.m. London time and waited in line to go through customs.
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Chip’s father, Chuck Cantor, said .... the customs agent was very pleasant .... until she saw the Israel stamps in his passport. Then she simply walked away with his passport without speaking a word to him. Chip told his father he estimates she was gone 45 minutes to an hour. He never saw her again.
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According to the Chronicle, Chip wasn’t allowed to be in sight of his luggage and eventually was put into what he described to his father as a detention cell.
“At some point a woman who was wearing a burka came to the cell to photograph him,” Chuck said. At that point he was fingerprinted as well.
As she was doing this, she said to him, “We’re putting your name and fingerprints and photos into a database. From now on it is going to be very difficult for you to ever travel in the United Kingdom or anywhere in the E.U. It will be up to each individual country to decide if they want to admit you.”
Chuck said Chip kept telling the customs agents he had not committed any crimes or done anything wrong. Eventually another agent came to tell Chip he was being deported.
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Yeomans, the custom agent, also told Shilling any additional attempts to aid Cantor would be useless and “the little Jew will be on his way back to his rich daddy,” in a matter of hours.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
So a whole country is to be judged on the (alleged) actions of one person?.
not the whole country but certainly the whole government
Remember, this is only half of the story. If the Burkacops are hindering good people, just imagine all the bad people that are being allowed in. The brits are nuts to allow this.
Looks like his employer would need to sponsor him as a temporary worker. Doesn’t look like he’d fit under the other categories.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/working/
It doesn’t look like he’d fit under the visitor category to do business.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/visiting/
per the israelnationalnews.com website.
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Jeeze...each time I read a post on this thread I get sick all over again. WTF??? England may as well be a Shariah country. I do NOT want to ever go there again!
My stays at Heathrow were two of the worst episodes in my traveling history, and I pity anyone who has to go through that country!
“I’ve been told to use a duplicate passport if traveling to Israel to avoid this kind of thing. Apparently this happens all the time in several countries.”
Sometimes. I have both a US and an Israeli passport, and tend to travel on my US passport, so I’ve avoided the problm.
But my wife (who was born in the USA) occassionally had difficulties because of Israeli passport stamps.
Oddly enough, I’ve traveled to Saudi — and am openly and visibly Jewish -— on a USA passport, and had no problems.
But then again, I was there to train Saudi AF pilots and was accompanied by a member of the royal family.
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