Mehreen Faruqi, a Greens member of the NSW legislative council, was detained for more than an hour with her husband after trying to clear immigration at Los Angeles international airport on Thursday, in a case of what she called “racial profiling”.
She said she had presented her passport and been fingerprinted by officials at the airport before being asked “how we got Australian passports”.
“We said it was because we lived there and they asked where we were originally from,” Faruqi said. “When we said Pakistan we were told that someone would be escorting us to the interview room.”
The MP, who was elected in 2013, said she was asked in a “really aggressive” manner if she could present identification other than her Australian passport.
“To be asked how I got an Australian passport is ridiculous on one level and heart-wrenching at another,” she said. “You don’t expect it, you know you haven’t done anything. It’s a little bit embarrassing.” Cont.
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