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Yassmin Abdel-Magied says she is being deported from the USWithin three hours of arriving in the US, Australian author and activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied said she was on a plane "back" after being refused entry.
Ms Abdel-Magied had landed in Minneapolis ahead of speaking engagements in New York, but said that border agents decided to deport her just minutes after looking at her "case".
They’ve taken my phone, cancelled my visa and are deporting me," she said. She did not say where she was being sent back to.
"Will follow up on messages once I understand what’s going on."
Despite being on a plane out of the US, Ms Abdel-Magied said officials still had her passport and would not return it until she was in another country.
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Roughly three hours since touch down in Minneapolis, I’m on a plane back," she tweeted.
"Well, guess that tightening of immigration laws business is working, despite my Australian passport. We’re taking off now. What a time."
Fairfax Media has contacted Ms Abdel-Magied for comment.
The former Queensland Young Australian of the Year was due to appear at two events for the Pen America World Voices Festival.
The first talk, titled The M Word: No Country For Young Muslim Women, was set to feature Ms Abdel-Magied and US author Amani Al-Khatahtbeh discussing the difficulties of being young Muslim women in Western countries.
The second event is a panel discussion about how to counter online hate and the women’s experience with it - a topic with which Ms Abdel-Magied is all too familiar.
Ms Abdel-Magied moved to London after her Anzac Day post, "Lest We Forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine ...)" led to a massive public backlash.
In November last year, in her first Australian television appearance since she moved overseas, she told The Project’s hosts the reaction was “surreal”.
I went from being, like, this young Queenslander of the Year and on all these kind of boards and councils and I was like the good Muslim girl, the darling. Next minute it's like everything exploded," she said.
"I'm now someone with nothing left to lose and that's kind of amazing. It means I can say what I want ... I think the nice version of saying it is no runs left to give."
Besides her social commentary and activism, Ms Abdel-Magied also made her acting debut in SBS digital series Homecoming Queens on Thursday night.
So far, she has been able to see the lighter side of her deportation situation.
"Funniest thing is that throughout this whole ordeal all I am thinking about is what a good story this would make," she tweeted.
"We all have ways of dealing with situations."
According to The New York Times, US border agents have a much broader authority to conduct searches than US police.
Border agents are legally allowed to search bags without a judge's prior approval, and are also allowed to seize and search digital devices.
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