Originally Posted by
chgoeditor
Is the ticket you're thinking about purchasing a round trip or one way? It's safe to assume that a one-way ticket -- even one that shows you're connecting to an international flight departing from the US -- it may also result in denied entry. (Clearly the presence of an international departure did not deter them from denying you back in February.)
She didn't have a connecting ticket. She had to separate one way tickets. One to US and one onward.