‘Disbelieving’: Australian politician on official study trip denied entry to US

Lebanon-born Victorian Labor MP Khalil Eideh stuck in Vancouver after being stopped boarding Denver flight with group

An Australian state MP has been prevented from entering the United States, and fellow travelling politicians have been given no reason for the move.

Lebanon-born Khalil Eideh, a Labor MP in Victoria, was stuck in Vancouver on Friday after a United Airlines staffer told him he was not allowed to board a flight to Denver with the rest of the group.

“The United Airlines staff knew he had been denied entry to the US before any of us,” the Sex party MP Fiona Patten told AAP from Denver on Friday.

“He was incredibly upset … disbelieving.”

Patten said Eideh was not told why he wasn’t allowed on the plane.

Source: ‘Disbelieving’: Australian politician on official study trip denied entry to US | Australia news | The Guardian