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About That French Scientist Who Was Denied Entry Into the US...
Townhall ^ | 03/22/25 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 03/22/2025 6:00:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The liberal media is ready to pounce on anything to discredit the Trump administration’s goal of securing our border and enforcing our immigration laws. They are dying for bodies to pile up because they’re psychopaths. We already have Nelson Mandela 2.0 in Mahmoud Khalil, a supporter of Hamas. Badar Khan Suri was the next story, a Georgetown University scholar who faces deportation because of familial ties to Hamas—his father-in-law is a political adviser to the terror group. These things come in threes, so here’s the story of a French scientist who was denied entry after his phone had anti-Trump texts. That’s the story, but not the real one.

Remember Vance lecturing the EU on free speech?

A 🇫🇷 researcher was expelled by US authorities because:

"His phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy"https://t.co/KDvhgEj4z3— François Valentin (@Valen10Francois) March 20, 2025

🔴 A French scientist was denied entry to the US after immigration officials found text messages that were critical of Donald Trump which they “considered to be terrorism” https://t.co/uSIve6ckID— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) March 20, 2025

First, the tee-up (via The Guardian): 

A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister. 

“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde. 

“This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher’s phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration’s research policy,” the minister added. 

“Freedom of opinion, free research, and academic freedom are values that we will continue to proudly uphold. I will defend the right of all French researchers to be faithful to them, while respecting the law,” Baptiste said. 

Yeah, that’s not why he was denied:

Last note: Brown University Prof. Rasha Alawieh got deported recently. She had photos of herself with terrorists, including some from Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral (via Politico):

Federal authorities say they deported a Lebanese doctor holding an American visa last week after finding “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in a deleted items folder on her cell phone. 

Rasha Alawieh, a physician specializing in kidney transplants and professor at Brown University, also told Customs and Border Protection agents that while visiting Lebanon last month she attended the funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and followed his teachings “from a religious perspective” but not a political one, according to an official report on her interrogation by an immigration officer.

 Yeah, bye-bye, lady

Everyone being detained and shipped out by the Trump administration are folks most voters want removed from our shores. It’s liberals and the media who wish to keep this country awash with terrorists.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; France; Gaza; Government; Hamas; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badarkhansuri; denial; entry; espionage; france; french; gaza; georgetown; hamas; hezbollah; nationalsecurity; nonfrench; notfrench; philippebaptiste; terrorism

1 posted on 03/22/2025 6:00:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Like I said this morning - when the Western Media hits us with, yet, another ‘sob story’ there is ALWAYS a back story.

As I noted, going through a person’s phone to see if there are anti-Trump postings would eliminate roughly 99% of the 120,000 daily US arrivals from Europe. Also, the amount of manpower needed to scan through 120,000 phones, computers, and other devices would require about 100 times the number of Customs Agents on active duty at any one time.

So they already knew there was a problem with this clown, and the rest was simply icing on the cake.


2 posted on 03/22/2025 6:07:57 PM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: SeekAndFind

‘Everyone being detained and shipped out by the Trump administration are folks most voters want removed from our shores. It’s liberals and the media who wish to keep this country awash with terrorists.’

Exactly.


3 posted on 03/22/2025 6:08:12 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BobL

That’s true.


4 posted on 03/22/2025 6:08:35 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bttt


5 posted on 03/22/2025 6:08:54 PM PDT by Fzob (“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential)
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To: BobL

Now we get the “rest of the story”.


6 posted on 03/22/2025 6:20:53 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: SeekAndFind

The left and their media are psychopaths. They have no consciences and care for nothing other than gaining and using power to harm people and enrich themselves.


7 posted on 03/22/2025 6:21:00 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21

“The left and their media are psychopaths. They have no consciences and care for nothing other than gaining and using power to harm people and enrich themselves.”
You nailed it!


8 posted on 03/22/2025 6:39:36 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind
The US media cartels care not a whit for Americans. If it's foreign it gets a free pass on
everything. CNN, CBS, and MSNBC cared more about Laken Riley's killer José Antonio
Ibarra, the gangster who mutilated her precious body. No tears for Laken, but tears
for her killer.

Too bad about the Frenchie the Frog. Should've stayed in Gay Paree.

9 posted on 03/22/2025 6:44:00 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nobody cared before, and nobody cares now.
Next drama.


10 posted on 03/22/2025 7:05:01 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! Re )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

11 posted on 03/23/2025 5:59:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BobL

The media has gone through various stages.

Light bias, goes to heavy bias, goes to withholding of pertinent facts, goes to outright lying.

We are somewhere between stage three and stage four.


12 posted on 03/23/2025 6:02:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Lazamataz

You forgot about Stage 5 where they publish boasting headlines like: “Spies are stealing our tech, and that’s a good thing!”


13 posted on 03/23/2025 6:08:03 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Sirius Lee

I stand corrected.


14 posted on 03/23/2025 6:08:39 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“The US media cartels care not a whit for Americans. If it’s foreign it gets a free pass on everything.”

more eyeballs, more revenue


15 posted on 03/23/2025 7:45:52 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/white-house-spox-says-mahmoud-khalil-arrested-ahead-of-deportation-for-distributing-propaganda-fliers-with-the-logo-of-hamas/


16 posted on 03/23/2025 8:00:22 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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