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Dec 23, 2015 | 3:13 am

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GUWonder

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...-david-cameron

Just the airfare cost the family well over $13,000, an amount that the airline is refusing to refund.

And was it US DHS that denied them transport from London-Gatwick airport?

At least one of the passengers in the group has a very common first and last name, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some US blacklist hit even after the ESTA approval.

This kind of situation should not be a surprise. When the EU refused to act with solidarity to tell the US Government to go pound sand with regard to ESTA implementation and PNR surveillance measures, this kind of thing hitting people headed to vacation to fatten the wallets of Disney shareholders shouldn't be unexpected. But don't expect the EU or UK to do much of anything useful about this when they want to replicate what the US does (and wants the EU/EEA to do) in order to lock down people more than is already done.

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