New Hampshire lawyer ‘treated like a criminal’ by border patrol after returning from Canada

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New Hampshire lawyer ‘treated like a criminal’ by border patrol after returning from Canada - ‘They held us in two separate cells and neither of us had shoes or a jacket. It was freezing,’ the lawyer explained to The Independent Tuesday

A New Hampshire real estate attorney and an American citizen have claimed they were detained at the U.S. border without explanation.

Bachir Atallah and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were returning from a family vacation in Canada Sunday when officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped them as they were re-entering the country in Vermont.

“They held us in two separate cells, and neither of us had shoes or a jacket. It was freezing,” Atallah told The Independent Tuesday.

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