Day 109.

Not feeling great tonight. Going to go easy on myself because I’m afraid I’m burning out.

I want to draw to your attention to some incidents involving law enforcement detaining people and preventing travel. Now, not one month ago during the ban.

The visa of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Khaled Khateeb of The White Helmets will not be attending the ceremony tomorrow. The Department of Homeland Security would not say exactly why.

Australian children’s book author Mem Fox was detained at LAX and aggressively questioned for two hours. Just to give you a visual on this one, Ms. Fox is 70 years old and was questioned standing up in a public room in full view and hearing of others by a policeman “heavy with weaponry”. She was eventually permitted to enter the country. She contacted the US Embassy and received an emailed apology.

Here is an image from her latest book.

The final two people I want to tell you about are American citizens.

Eduardo Caraballo was detained for three days by the Chicago Police Department and faced deportation. His was born in Puerto Rico and is therefore an American citizen.

Caraballo said he repeatedly told officers that he was born in Puerto Rico and therefore an American citizen.  His mother also presented his birth certificate, but despite that and his state-issued ID, officials told him he was facing deportation.

“I’m pretty sure they know that Puerto Ricans are citizens, but just because of the way I look — I have Mexican features — they pretty much assumed that my papers were fake,” he said. “They were making me feel like I can’t voice my opinion or I can’t even speak for myself to let them know that I am a citizen.”

He says officers asked him specific questions about the Caribbean island that he could not answer, mostly because he moved to the mainland when he was 8 months old and has only been back to Puerto Rico once since birth.

He was released after his mother contacted her member of congress.

Finally, Muhammad Ali, Jr. was detained at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport for two hours and questioned about his religion. Mr. Ali was born in America and is a United States citizen with no criminal history.

It’s still happening.