Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker says he was detained and questioned at airport

Hasan Piker, 1 of the astir fashionable left-wing governmental creators successful the U.S., says helium was detained and questioned astatine the Chicago O’Hare Airport upon returning to the U.S. aft a travel to France.

In a stream successful which helium addressed the experience, Piker claims that helium was questioned astir his views connected Trump, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

Piker has been outwardly captious of President Donald Trump and the U.S.’s ongoing enactment of the Israeli military, and helium said it was wide to him that the Customs and Border Protection cause knew who helium was.

“He kept saying worldly like, ‘Do you similar Hamas?’” Piker said successful a video. “I kept repeating the aforesaid connection implicit and implicit again… I americium connected the broadside of civilians. I privation the endless bloodshed to end. I americium a pacifist.”

Piker said that helium felt that the cause who interviewed him was trying to get him to accidental thing incriminating, and that the cause was alert of his online presence. Though Piker is simply a U.S. citizen, helium was acrophobic astir being jailed astatine the borderline for his governmental speech, since some U.S. citizens person been wrongfully detained amid Trump’s crackdown connected immigration.

According to NBC News, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authoritative said that, successful recounting his communicative online, Piker is “lying for likes.”

“Claims that his governmental beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin successful a statement. “Our officers are pursuing the law, not agendas. Upon entering the country, this idiosyncratic was referred for further inspection — a routine, lawful process that occurs daily, and tin use for immoderate traveler. Once his inspection was complete, helium was promptly released.”

Piker has pushed backmost against DHS’s response.

On X, Piker wrote: “the dhs effect is truthful comic cus they’re not adjacent disputing that it happened, they’re omitting the insane questions that were asked, & alternatively claiming that one wasn’t targeted for my governmental beliefs. why’d y’all inquire maine astir trump, israel, houthis, hamas and my twitch bans then?”