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Muhammad Ali Jr. detained by immigration officials at Fla. airport

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Loudninja

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was detained for hours by immigration officials earlier this month at a Florida airport, according to a family friend.

Muhammad Ali Jr., 44, and his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali, the first wife of Muhammad Ali, were arriving at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Feb. 7 after returning from speaking at a Black History Month event in Montego Bay, Jamaica. They were pulled aside while going through customs because of their Arabic-sounding names, according to family friend and lawyer Chris Mancini.

Immigration officials let Camacho-Ali go after she showed them a photo of herself with her ex-husband, but her son did not have such a photo and wasn't as lucky. Mancini said officials held and questioned Ali Jr. for nearly two hours, repeatedly asking him, "Where did you get your name from?" and "Are you Muslim?"

When Ali Jr. responded that yes, he is a Muslim, the officers kept questioning him about his religion and where he was born. Ali Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1972 and holds a U.S. passport.
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To the Ali family, it's crystal clear that this is directly linked to Mr. Trump's efforts to ban Muslims from the United States," Mancini said, referring to President Trump's executive order signed Jan. 27 that instituted a ban for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries.

Officials at the Fort Lauderdale airport did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.

Camacho-Ali and Ali Jr. live in Deerfield Beach, Fla., a 20-minute drive from the airport. While Ali Jr. was detained, Camacho-Ali ran around the airport asking, "Where's my son?" and begging for help, according to Mancini. Because incidents involving customs officials are considered to be on federal soil, local police had no jurisdiction to help her. Ali Jr. was eventually released two hours later, and the family contacted Mancini the following day.
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Mancini said he and the Ali family are contemplating filing a federal lawsuit and are currently trying to find out how many other people have been subjected to the same treatment as Ali Jr.

"Imagine walking into an airport and being asked about your religion," he said. "This is classic customs profiling."
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...d-immigration-officials-fla-airport/98379082/
 
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Ogodei

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When we get the government back ICE and CBP need to be cleaned out from top to bottom. Full social media and polygraph tests for racist tendencies or corruption, any hint of failure is termination with a lifetime ban from federal or law enforcement employment.
 
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Linkura

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Please, please file that lawsuit. How dare they do this to someone with a fucking US passport (I mean they shouldn't do it to anyone, but this is beyond the pale).
 
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Jpop

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"Float like a butterfly a butterfly. Sting like a bee."

Get fucked Trump.
 
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RustyNails

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"My name is known in Serbia, Pakistan, Morocco. These are countries that don't follow the Kentucky Derby." - Ali in a New York Times interview, April 1977.
 
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shinobi602

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"Are you Muslim?"

Fucking hell...me, my wife and my kids are all US citizens, born and raised, just like Muhammad Ali Jr. God help me if some immigration shitbag starts questioning me like that. I got a short temper... *sigh*
 
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Jag

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Ali Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1972 and holds a U.S. passport.
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Born in Philly to an American hero. Doesn't get anymore goddam American than that.

shinobi602 said:
"Are you Muslim?"

Fucking hell...me, my wife and my kids are all US citizens, born and raised, just like Muhammad Ali Jr. God help me if some immigration shitbag starts questioning me like that. I got a short temper... *sigh*
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Think of your kids. You can't do anything from jail. Good people just need to keep fighting this.
 
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Bgamer90

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So disgusting.

1/4 of the earth's population being treated like they are "rare" and "dangerous".

I guess they would be to close-minded, xenophobic people that don't get out much. Ugh.
 
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FZZ

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See my brown ass is scared af to travel outside the fucking country which is hilarious because at least half of the country doesn't even want me here
 
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Slackbladder

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Christ. Just imagine if they had tried this with Ali when he was in his prime. "Yeah, you can lock me up if you can go one round with me". Not that he would have said anything like that of course. I just find it a satisfying mental image imagining an immigration* tit getting clobbered.
Yeah, these immigration fucks are just doing their job. And far too many are loving every minute of it I bet.



*That's not easy to say......or read lol.
 
Goro Majima

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Meanwhile his dad is literally one of the most famous and identifiable Americans who have ever lived

For fucks sake
 
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Skatterd

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"Religion should not be allowed to come into politics...religion is merely a matter between man and God."

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How About No

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Oh wow what a fuck up

Totes not profiling tho. No wai

Skatterd said:
"Religion should not be allowed to come into politics...religion is merely a matter between man and God."

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Yoshimitsu126

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We need more stories like this spreading to warn other tourists. If we can get the tourism economy to suffer, people who support this type of profiling can at least see the economic consequence of it.
 
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TenCentCoast

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Zackat said:
you mean her ex-husband Muhammad Ali? At least that is what one would assume who was in the picture with her.



Fuck all this shit. Reprehensible.
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Fuck me. My brain completely glazed over the "Ali" part and thought that was referring to another person. My apologies.
 
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Koomaster

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Disgusting. How are you questioning valid US passport holders for hours about their name and religion? Sue the fucking shit out of everyone responsible.
 
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kingocfs

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Skatterd said:
"Religion should not be allowed to come into politics...religion is merely a matter between man and God."

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bruh
 
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MIMIC

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They were pulled aside while going through customs because of their Arabic-sounding names, according to family friend and lawyer Chris Mancini.

Immigration officials let Camacho-Ali go after she showed them a photo of herself with her ex-husband, but her son did not have such a photo and wasn't as lucky. Mancini said officials held and questioned Ali Jr. for nearly two hours, repeatedly asking him, "Where did you get your name from?" and "Are you Muslim?"

When Ali Jr. responded that yes, he is a Muslim, the officers kept questioning him about his religion and where he was born. Ali Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1972 and holds a U.S. passport.
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Ain't that some shit? Trump swiftly brought back the post-9/11 climate, didn't he?
 
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Skatterd said:
"Religion should not be allowed to come into politics...religion is merely a matter between man and God."

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Cassius looks like he knows what's comin.
 
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D i Z

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That was bound to happen. Imagine an actual funnel. In it, the lightest more nimble fluids of common sense and normal interactions sits on top of the heavier, thicker stupidity of phobic bullshit and authoritarian mandate. Only the bullshit wiggles through the narrow passage. It all pushes together with no regard for order or space, until everything comes to a grinding halt. This is what we live in now. We're stuck. With the bullshit blocking us.
 
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MechaX

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There are... a lot of problems I have about this story. Too many to fucking count.

What I want to actually say out loud at the moment is that some fuckwits actually believe screaming "Are you Muslim?! ARE YOU MUSLIM?!" is the "extreme" fucking vetting some... certain people in high positions of the Federal Government honestly planned out.
 
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