"I had at that time, the wrong and false hope that once they realised I was, you know, just an Australian writer and not a threat to the US that they would let me in,” he said. “But then they took my phone away and began downloading it and searching it.”
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Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests
Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne