Anabella Gyasi Dulles Detention: 5 Shocking New Details Emerge
- Immigration officials detained Anabella Gyasi, a Ghanaian-American dual citizen, at Dulles International Airport for over 12 hours after she returned from a family visit abroad, with agents claiming a discrepancy in her passport bio-page.
- The detention sparked a viral outcry on social media after Gyasi live-tweeted the ordeal, revealing she was questioned about her U.S. citizenship status despite holding a valid U.S. passport—raising fears of unlawful profiling.
- Newly released audio from inside the holding cell captures Gyasi asking for a supervisor four times before being ignored, while a customs agent allegedly muttered, "We don't care about your papers."
- A leaked internal memo suggests the detention was triggered by an outdated "name match" alert from a 2017 visa overstay by a different Anabella Gyasi in Lagos, revealing a systemic flaw in CBP's database.
- Gyasi's lawyer has filed a federal civil rights complaint, citing the case as the first in a wave of targeted detentions at Dulles this month, with similar incidents reported for three other dual nationals.