Original Publish Date » April 10 , 2025
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Sophia Harris / CBC News » When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.
He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.
“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.
“We can say to ourselves, ‘Well, I haven’t done anything wrong,’ but then you have to ask yourself questions like … ‘Have I said anything on social media that the current regime might find critical of them?’ “
