Indian-origin Canadian denied entry to US

Toronto March 9 (IANS) An Indian origin Canadian citizen was barred from entering the US and told to get a valid visa if she wanted to cross the border a media report said on Wednesday.

Manpreet Kooner who lives in Candian city of Montreal said she was turned away at a crossing along the Quebec-Vermont border on Sunday after a six-hour wait where she was fingerprinted photographed and questioned before being refused The Huffington Post (Canada) reported.

Thirty-year-old Kooner said an officer told her that she was an immigrant without a valid US visa and claimed that the border agent told her I know you might feel like you re being Trumped.

Unbelievable. Refused entry to the States. Because I m apparently an Immigrant who now requires a Visa to enter the States. While informing me that I cannot enter the States. The office told me I ve been trumped she wrote on her Facebook Page.

At the end of it they told me I was not allowed going in and that I would need a visa if I ever went in the States again Kooner was quoted as saying.

Last time she had an issue entering the US was in December last year when a computer glitch prevented her from crossing into New York State for 24 hours.

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