Canadian Muslims denied entry into US

According to CBC, At least six Canadian Muslims have been denied entry at the Canada-U.S. border in the past two weeks, due to their race and religious background.

According to CBC, At least six Canadian Muslims have been denied entry at the Canada-U.S. border in the past two weeks, due to their race and religious background.

According to immigration lawyers, it has been reported that multiple Canadian Muslims and in some instances, their entire family have actually been turned away at Canada-U.S borders over the past few weeks. Those who have been turned away at the border state that they have received little explanation on exactly why they were unable to cross into their southern neighbor.

Those denied entry include a prominent Guyana-born Toronto imam who serves as a chaplain with the Peel Regional Police and an Iraqi Turkmen community leader who has family members fighting ISIS in the Middle East.

They were traveling separately with their families and were turned away at different border crossing points.

Neither Guyana nor Iraq are among the seven Muslim-majority countries subject to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” executive order, which essentially blocks refugees and visitors from those countries from entering the U.S.

Both men were told to apply for visas at the U.S. consulate in Toronto before returning to the border to seek entry — an unusual process for people who hold Canadian passports.