Iranian-Canadians feel like '2nd-class citizens' as many continue to be stopped while travelling to the U.S.
CBC News interviewed several Iranian-born Canadian citizens who were denied entry to the United States due to having been conscripted into the Iranian military as young men.
The Trump administration labelled the IRGC as a terrorist organization in 2019. Abolhassani said all men in Iran above the age of 18 have to do mandatory service with one of the arms of the military. CBC News spoke with 15 Iranian-Canadians, all of them Canadian citizens, who continue to be stopped and detained while crossing into other countries due to their names being flagged as people who have helped a terrorist organization. All say they feel they are treated as second-class citizens.
Maryam Ghasemi, a research assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, was supposed to begin a new research position at Augusta University in Georgia on Aug. 1. When Ghasemi went to the Rainbow Bridge border office in Niagara Falls, Ont., in May to apply for aGhasemi said officers from Homeland Security searched through her family's social media then escorted them to their car without giving any reasons.
"The university has decided to postpone my position until next semester. But if the visa process doesn't work out, I will lose the position. The future is not clear to us."Ghasemi, like many others, contacted members of Parliament and the Prime Minister's Office, only to be told that it is not Canada's responsibility.
Like many others, Maryam Ghasemi has contacted members of parliament and the prime minister’s office multiple times only to be told that it is not Canada’s responsibility. "Officers talk to us as if we aren't Canadian citizens. You granted me citizenship [and] my daughter was born here. I told my five-year-old daughter, it's part of the game when passing airports," Mokhtarzadeh said.
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