An excellent story here on dKOS prompted me to write my US Representative (yep, that’s Don Young himself, AK, our only one). Though the letters back to me are not the routine brush off (which I get fairly often), the situation is essentially still one of the US government taking unjustified and unexplained action against a civilian.
To recap, story from September 17, 2007), titled
Homeland Security goes Gestapo..detains music scholar and written by Demfem, explains that Dr. Nalini Ghuman is an expert on Edward Elgar (British composer who wrote "Pomp and Circumstance"). She plays the piano and the violin and teaches at Mills College in Oakland, CA.
The expulsion has affected her professional and scholarly work for nearly a year now....
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