Longtime Prospect Park, New Jersey, Mayor Mohamed Khairullah says he was blocked from attending a White House celebration to mark the end of Ramadan by the Secret Service.
Khairullah, a Muslim who was born in Syria, has been the Democratic mayor of the borough of 6,300 for 17 years.
Khairullah said he believes that his name is mistakenly on an FBI list and that it has caused him travel problems in the past but that he thought it had been resolved. But agencies have never given him many details, and they have offered no way to remedy it. "While we regret any inconvenience this may have caused, the mayor was not permitted to enter the White House complex for this evening’s event," Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.
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