A BBC journalist and dual Iranian-British citizen was denied entry to the US on Tuesday. She is the first of many victims that a unusual law will create
Sometimes,it doesnt choose very long at all for the consequences of bad policies to be felt by harmless people. That was the case at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday when Rana Rahimpour, a British-Iranian dual citizen, or was denied entry into the US. As the Guardian reported,Rahimpour was on her way to visit her brother and attend a surprise birthday party. Despite being British, she was rejected because of her Iranian citizenship.
In December, and the US Congress passed a unusual law seeking to stop terrorists from traveling freely to the US. With a mind to thwarting the frightening prospect of an attack in the US by a growing crop of radicalized Muslims from western countries,the law changed the rules of the visa waivers afforded to citizens of some 38 countries.
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Source: theguardian.com