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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Lucy Thackray

Irish man barred from entering US ‘because he was born in Iraq’

Abood Al Jumaili

An Irish man has described the moment he was barred from boarding a flight to the US by American border officials, who he alleges said it was “because he was born in Iraq”.

Abood Al Jumaili - a professional sportsman in the Irish sport of hurling and Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador for Ireland’s Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) - had been set to fly to Atlanta, Georgia from Dublin with Delta Air Lines on Wednesday.

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