U.S. Customs Now Reads Your Blog Entries?
Declan McCullagh writes in the C|Net Politics Blog:
An Iranian trying to enter the U.S. says border guards barred him from entering because his blog said he was based in New York.
Hossein Derakhshan, who writes a blog on Hoder.com, said in a post last week that he's "homeless" because he was prevented from re-entering the country. Derakhshan says he was born in Tehran and then moved to Toronto, Canada in December 2000.
The United States, of course, requires a visa for foreign citizens who want to live here permanently.
So when the border guards found a Newsweek magazine labeled with his name and a New York City address, coupled with the I-live-in-the-Big-Apple contents of his blog, they were suspicious and denied him entry for six months, Derakhshan says.
posted by Fergie @ 11/30/2005 07:09:00 AM
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