A French scientist was refused entry to the U.S. after airport immigration officers found messages on his phone criticizing the Trump administration, the French government said.
“I learned with concern” that a French researcher had traveled to the U.S. this month on assignment for the National Center for Scientific Research but “was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s higher education and research minister, said in a statement to Agence France-Presse, Le Monde reported. The scientist, a space researcher, has not been publicly identified.
