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Muhammad Ali's son says he was detained at airport because he's Muslim
Muhammad Ali's son, ex-wife detained at airport 03:51
By Leinz Vales, CNN-Tue February 28, 2017(CNN)The son of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali said he was detained by immigration officials at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport because he's a Muslim.
Muhammad Ali Jr., along with his mother, Khalilah Camacho-Ali were
returning to Florida from Jamaica after speaking at a black history
event. They were retrieving their bags at baggage claim, when an
official pulled them aside.
"He asked me, 'what is your name?' " Ali Jr. told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight." "Which I didn't think nothing of that."
The 44-year-old American citizen, who was born in Philadelphia added that the official asked for the origins of his name.
"He said, 'OK, now, what is your religion?' " Ali Jr. said. "And I said,
'Muslim, I'm a Muslim.' And I thought to myself, that's kind of odd. He
asked about my religion, and I'm traveling back into the country from
where I came from?"
Ali Jr. said the immigration official questioned him in separate room from his mother, Camacho-Ali for nearly two hours.
"They asked me, where was I born and what my religion was, where did I get the name from," Camacho-Ali said.
According to Camacho-Ali, she was released after she showed the official
a photo of herself with her then ex-husband, Muhammad Ali.
"I figured, maybe if I show I'm really Muhammad Ali's ex-wife, they would believe me and make it less of a problem," she said.
Chris Mancini, the attorney for the family claimed the incident stemmed
from President Donald Trump's executive order calling for a temporary
travel ban on foreign nationals entering the country from seven
Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Critics accused the order of discriminating against Muslims, and it was rejected by a federal appeals court.
"They're not being questioned together, they're being questioned by
separate officers," Mancini said. " So, if you've got two separate
officers working the same flight, and asking those same kind of
questions, that's part of a pattern, that's part of a program. There's
no question about it. That isn't random. That's deliberate."
An ICE official said that Ali Jr. was detained so they could identify
him and verify his passport. They declined to provide any additional
details, but said that he was not detained because he is a Muslim or had
an Arabic name.
Ali Jr. refuted the ICE statement, saying, "they didn't ask me nothing
about my passport. They asked me, what religion was I? That's nothing to
do with the passport."
"Do you believe there is a ban on Muslims?" Lemon asked, to which Ali
Jr. replied, "Yes," and Camacho-Ali added, "I believe something's in
place, whether they want to admit it or not."
