Muhammad Ali Jr., Detained Last Month at Airport, Stopped Again -<br />By MATTHEW HAAGMARCH 10, 2017<br />One day after Muhammad Ali Jr. spoke with members of Congress about being detained at a Florida airport<br />last month, he was briefly stopped again before boarding a flight on Friday afternoon, his lawyer said.<br />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?”<br />Mr. Ali and his mother recounted their ordeal at a forum with House Democrats on Thursday<br />and both spoke out against President Trump’s new travel restrictions.<br />“We have never said anything about anything happening after he left the ticket counter.”<br />He said he planned to file a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security and was “working toward a lawsuit.”<br />“People need to start paying attention to what’s happening in our country,” he said.<br />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<br />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.<br />When they arrived at the airport on Friday, Mr. Mancini said, he<br />and Mr. Ali joked about whether they would face additional scrutiny because of his comments.
