‘Are you from California?’ Political advisor said he was detained at airport after confirming he’s from L.A.

Experienced Los Angeles Political Advisor Rick Taylor, on the way back from a journey to abroad, asked for aside by the US customs and border protection agents, asked if he was from California, and said that he had left his family and put it in a holding room with several latin travelers for about an hour.

Orum I know how the system worked and had quite good connections, and I was still scared, Tay Taylor said 71 -year -old.

Taylor said there was a loss to explain why he was chosen for extra inquiry, but perhaps predicted that he was because of his T-shirt packaged in his suitcase.

Taylor, a CBP agent “Are you from California?” When he asked, his wife and daughter on a separate customs line with the Turkish and Caicos returned from a week of holiday. “Yes, I live in Los Angeles,” he said.

When he was a candidate for a Los Angeles Municipal Assembly in the 1990s, the last Republican Mayor of La and the current Democratic Sen. The man who campaign for Alex Padilla accompanied a waiting room and left his family.

There, Taylor said he was unjustly marked to be detained and was scared by CBP agents, waiting for 45 minutes without being released.

Taylor, the adviser of the re -election campaign of La Municipal Assembly Member Traci Park, said, “I have no idea why I was targeted.” “They don’t talk to you. They don’t give you a reason. You’re confused, you’re angry and worried.”

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Former Los Angeles District Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was arrested and handcuffed by trying to ask a question at the Los Angeles press conference by the Motherland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Alex said he brought Padilla to mind.

“Former Chief of General Staff and Political Consultant Rick Taylor were detained by the Federal International Airport after returning from an international holiday,” he said. “As Senator Alex Padilla said a few weeks ago, ‘If he can come to me, he may happen to everyone.’ This Federal Government Operation will be out of control!

A representative of the Customs and Border Protection in Florida said that an investigation made by Los Angeles Times that was taken late on Friday afternoon will be answered next week.

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Taylor, a partner of Dakota Communications, a strategic communication and marketing company, said that he was more concerned about traveling and returning to the United States with US citizen and his wife -born wife of Vietnam.

He said he had reached a Trump administration member before leaving the holiday and asked if his wife could contact that person if he was detained.

The family flew the American airlines and went to Miami on June 20, where he planned to visit his friends before returning to Los Angeles on Tuesday.

In a bending, Taylor’s wife and daughter, both global entrance card holders, Taylor, who has no global entrance, was detained, said that it was inspired by security.

After confirming that the representative was a resident of Los Angeles, he said that he placed a small orange label on his passport and was told to watch a green line. This took him to another agent and the final holding room.

Taylor described 95% of the population in the room as Latino and largely Spanish -speaking.

Im I was one of the three white men in the room, ”he said. “I just kept wondering, ‘What am I doing here?’

He said that the lack of communication was “very scary, although he was allowed to protect his phone and sent short message updates to his family.

“I internationally traveled to a fair amount and I haven’t set aside,” he said.

Taylor, about 45 minutes before the holding, said that an agent wanted to collect the baggage and deliver it for the examination.

He said he was released soon.

“The agents managed me to travel me, Tay said Taylor. “I can tell others to think twice about international travel when this management is responsible.”