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  • Deported Harvard student Ismail Ajjawi arrives at university for start of classes

    09/03/2019 10:48:24 AM PDT · by EinNYC · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 3, 2019 | Joshua Rhett Miller
    An incoming Harvard University freshman who was deported to Lebanon last month over social media posts arrived at the Ivy League institution just in time for the start of class on Tuesday, his relatives said. The family of Ismail B. Ajjawi said the 17-year-old Palestinian student arrived Monday in Cambridge after he was barred from entering the US at Boston Logan International Airport on Aug. 23 following a search of his phone and laptop by a Customs and Border Protection officer, the Harvard Crimson reported.
  • Palestinian Harvard Student Blocked From Coming to U.S. Is Allowed to Enter

    09/03/2019 7:43:50 AM PDT · by Meatspace · 10 replies
    New York Times ^ | Sep 3 2019 | Anemona Hartocollis
    Ismail Ajjawi, a Palestinian student denied entry to the United States last month at the airport in Boston, was allowed to enter the country on Monday and was at Harvard in time for the beginning of classes, according to Amideast, the group that sponsored him. Amideast said in a statement that the United States Embassy in Beirut had reviewed Mr. Ajjawi’s case and reissued a visa. Harvard officials confirmed that Mr. Ajjawi was on campus. Mr. Ajjawi, 17, landed at Logan International Airport in Boston on Aug. 23 and was turned back after immigration officials objected to his friends’ social...