One Canadian nurse was not only denied entry, but said she was humiliated and disrespected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff

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Laura Cooper (not her real name) headed to Edmonton International Airport on Sunday with the intention of travelling to the East Coast of the U.S. to work for four days.

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She had 25 years of experience as a labour and delivery nurse before moving into nursing education.

“We try to improve the maternity care system. It makes a huge difference if you give more power to nurses at the bedside,” she said.

It is an area where the U.S. is failing: the U.S. maternity mortality rate in 2020 was more comparable to Egypt, China and Turkey than to Canada, Germany or the U.K. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications.

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But Cooper says she was not only denied entry, but was humiliated and disrespected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff. She asked to use the pseudonym instead of her real name for this story over fears she could be blacklisted from ever travelling to the U.S. again in future.

She is not alone. The fear among immigration specialists is that the U.S. is........

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