"tell them not to travel to america"

Sherman Oaks, California

"I wanted to warn people about what can happen there, to tell them not to travel to America," Australian citizen Fazle Rabbi told the Los Angeles Times in describing his treatment at the hands of Customs and Border Protection officers at LAX. (The Sydney Morning Herald also ran a story.)

Rabbi and his family held valid Australian passports (having been naturalized from Bangladesh four years earlier), held valid U.S. visas (although, as Ozzies, they did not need them) but were refused entry to the United States. The reported reason was that he had been previously denied visas when he lived in Bangladesh.

We have the worst of both worlds: poor border security that alienates visitors.