“It seems like there’s much more rigidity and rigor in enforcing these immigration requirements and the technicalities of every visa,” said Marouf, who helped author an amicus brief earlier this month against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry to refugees and to travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. The courts have stayed the ban, which Trump instituted to prevent terrorist attacks.It’s not clear what led to Rousso’s detention and near-deportation; Egypt is not among the Muslim-majority countries listed.Rousso, 62, who specializes in memory and trauma, has written extensively on Holocaust-era France. According to his French-language Wikipedia entry, he was a visiting scholar in 2006 at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.He and his family were forced out of Egypt in 1956 under anti-Semitic measures instituted by the Nasser regime.I confirm. I have been detained 10 hours at Houston Itl Airport about to be deported. The officer who arrested me was "inexperienced" https://t.co/SdIKWKQbnr
— Henry Rousso (@Henry_Rousso) February 26, 2017