Ex-chief of police held at the airport in New York 1,5 hours to check

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The former police chief said he "feels vulnerable and insecure about the future of a country that was once great," after he was detained at 1,5 for an hour at the Kennedy Airport in New York.

Hassan Aden, the son of an Italian mother and Somali father, has been a naturalized US citizen since 10.

Aden was returning from Paris on March 13 and was detained while passing customs. The officer told him that his name coincided with the pseudonym of the person included in the list of people under surveillance, and that his information must be checked with the data of another department before they can skip it.

Aden wrote on Facebook that he watched foreign nationals at least 25 passports being checked for 5 minutes before they were allowed through. According to him, when he complained about the length of his detention, he was told that he was not detained.

“I was in a room without access to a mobile phone to contact my wife and family and tell them what was going on. My movements were limited, they had my passport, but still they had the audacity to tell me that I was not detained, ”he wrote.

He said that, as a former police officer, he understood the need for “reasonable detention for the purpose of investigation” if certain criteria are met. But now he wonders if “fear and detention” is not a new mission of the customs and border services.

A service representative stated that his office did not comment on specific cases.

The situation at American airports was at the center of special attention after President Donald Trump signed a decree banning the issuance of new visas to residents of 7 countries and suspending the admission of refugees to the country.

The federal court blocked the presidential decree, and then his new version. The President says that these measures are necessary to protect national security.

The initial decree caused confusion at airports, as customs officers were not sure how to apply the new rules, especially for people who already had valid visas. Some passengers were delayed, and in some cases they were not given the opportunity to meet with a lawyer.

Earlier this month, Mohammed Ali, Jr., son of the celebrated boxer Mohammed Ali, сообщилthat he was detained and interrogated at 2 at various airports.

According to Ali, at the airport in Florida, officials constantly asked him: “Why do you have such a name? You are Muslim?". The second time he was detained after he testified in Congress about the first incident.

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