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03-01-2017, 09:37 AM
Software engineer detained at JFK, given test to prove he's an engineer
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On Sunday, though, things got taken to the next level when the Customs and Border Protection ****** reportedly (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/software-engineer-detained-several-hours-us-customs-given-fairchild) claimed its latest victim: 28-year-old Celestine Omin, who was traveling from Lagos, Nigeria on business.
Omin, a software engineer at Andela (http://andela.com/) — a tech startup that connects developers in Africa with U.S employers — had a particularly unwelcoming reception when he deplaned at John F. Kennedy Airport and was given a test to prove he was actually a software engineer. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/02/28/software-engineer-jfk-detained-questioning/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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