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The left influencer and the political commentator Hasan Piker said that he was arrested for hours by US border officers and interrogated his political views.

Piker, a US citizen, said on Monday that he was held at the O'Hare International Airport of Chicago on Sunday when he returned from a family trip to France to the USA.

Piker, who has millions of supporters on YouTube, Twitch and X, became open in his criticism of Israel.

His exchange with civil servants was “warm” and the experience was not “so bad”, Piker emphasized in a YouTube video about his experience.

But an officer asked his views about Trump and whether he was in contact with militant groups of Hamas and Hisbollah.

“Do you like Hamas? Do you support Hamas? Do you think Hamas is a resistance group?” Hasan said the border official asked.

“The reason why they do this is, I think to try to create an environment of fear to bring people like myself or at least like others to my shoes who do not have the same level of safety to keep the flap,” said Piker.

Tricia McLaughlin, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Homeland Security, denied that the political beliefs of the piker triggered the more intensive screening.

“Claims that his political beliefs have triggered the inspection. Our officers follow the law, not the agenda,” she said in an explanation.

The defense of rights and Dissens, a US organization that defends bourgeois freedom, said that it was “deeply worried” that border officials prevent the political commentators from questioning them. “

“Such abuse of power is an affront for the press of freedom,” says a position to X.