KTLA: Prominent L.A. politico detained upon return from international trip, report says

[DBoon]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/prominent-l-a-politico-detained-upon-return-from-international-trip-report-says/

A powerful Los Angeles politico found himself detained by federal authorities as he returned to the U.S. from a trip abroad, the Westside Current reports.

Rick Taylor, a former chief of staff to longtime local leader Zev Yaroslavsky whose company bio touts him as leader of “scores of successful campaigns” who “has helped to elect numerous candidates to public office at the local, state and national levels,” was returning from Turks and Caicos on June 20, he told the Current.

While his wife and daughter made it through customs with ease, he was asked by an agent if he was from California. When he answered in the affirmative, he was pulled aside and put into a room that “was 90 percent Latino, Spanish-speaking folks,” he said.
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After an hour or so, he was released, but no explanation was given for the detention. At one point, he remembered he had an Obama-Biden shirt in his bag.

Being a Democratic political operative means border control has even more reason to put you in your place.

The original article in Westside Current is here:
https://www.westsidecurrent.com/news/westside-power-broker-rick-taylor-held-and-released-by-u-s-customs-after-return-from/article_f7d93a26-1ca9-471a-afd5-11bd747da557.html

[patphil]

1. Terrorism, Republican style.

[Duncan Grant]

2. I'm sure it was a simple mistake. It will never happen to you.

And about that coffee — ignore the smell.