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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

Vaccine researcher with green card held at San Francisco airport for a week and faces deportation

A vaccine researcher with U.S. permanent residency has been detained this month for at least a week inside the San Francisco airport without explanation, and his family says immigration officials have restricted the man’s access to his lawyers.

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, 40, was returning to the U.S. from his native South Korea on July 21 when he was detained at a security checkpoint at SFO.

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