Muhammad Ali Jr., Detained Last Month at Airport, Stopped Again -
By MATTHEW HAAGMARCH 10, 2017
One day after Muhammad Ali Jr. spoke with members of Congress about being detained at a Florida airport
last month, he was briefly stopped again before boarding a flight on Friday afternoon, his lawyer said.
Mr. Mancini said then that Customs and Border Protection officials had asked Mr. Ali, “Where did you get your name from?” and, “Are you Muslim?”
Mr. Ali and his mother recounted their ordeal at a forum with House Democrats on Thursday
and both spoke out against President Trump’s new travel restrictions.
“We have never said anything about anything happening after he left the ticket counter.”
He said he planned to file a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security and was “working toward a lawsuit.”
“People need to start paying attention to what’s happening in our country,” he said.
When Mr. Ali, whose father died last year, arrived at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Friday for a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he gave his Illinois
identification card to a JetBlue agent to get his boarding pass, said his lawyer, Chris Mancini, who was traveling with him and witnessed the episode.
When they arrived at the airport on Friday, Mr. Mancini said, he
and Mr. Ali joked about whether they would face additional scrutiny because of his comments.