American stranger sticks up for Iranian-Canadian at U.S. border (CTV News)
CTV News, February 1, 2017
American stranger sticks up for Iranian-Canadian at U.S. border
“An Iranian-Canadian travelling from Toronto to the United States last weekend, amid conflicting information about whether the U.S. travel ban applied to dual citizens, says he was aided by a kind American stranger. Neuroscientist Mohsen Omrani tells CTV News Channel he was in line at Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport on Sunday when a woman in front of him apologized for being slow….The apologetic woman turned out to be Barbara Berger Opotowsky, the former executive director of New York City Bar. She approached Omrani during his flight, handed him her card and promised to wait until he was cleared by security. ‘I’m an American citizen, I’m a lawyer, I can be helpful,’ Berger Optowsky recalls thinking. ‘It’s time to act, even if it’s one very small thing.’”
