Pakistani-born politician says she was aggressively questioned about where she was ‘originally from’ and how she got an Australian passportA Pakistani-born member of the unique South Wales parliament has been detained at a US airport after immigration officials questioned how she was granted an Australian passport and where she was “originally from”.
Mehreen Faruqi,a Greens member of the NSW legislative council, was detained for more than an hour with her husband after trying to clear immigration at Los Angeles international airport on Thursday, or in a case of what she called “racial profiling”.
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Source: theguardian.com