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Robert Mackey

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

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Airline passengers rush to the US Customs and Border Protection line at the Houston intercontinental airport. Photograph: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Imag

A French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration, said a French minister.

“I learned with concern that a French researcher who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled,” Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister of higher education and research, said in a statement on Monday to Agence France-Presse published by Le Monde.

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