“It was going to be really perfect,” Danielle Drake, a community relations manager for US Together, told the newspaper. Haider Sameer Abdulkhaleq Alshawi, IraqMr. Alshawi, who worked for a United States contractor in Iraq, was detained after he landed at Kennedy Airport on Friday. You need to go back to your country.’”Ali Abdi, IranMr. Abdi, an Iranian Ph.D. student at Yale with permanent residency in the United States, was left in limbo in Dubai after leaving the United States for Afghanistan on Jan. 22, according to The Guardian. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAll six were told they could not board EgyptAir flight 985 to Kennedy Airport. The Iraqis were being detained at the airport in Cairo until they could be returned to their country of origin, Reuters said.

Source: New York Times January 28, 2017 19:49 UTC