Is the Department of Homeland Security Google searching the names of travelers before they enter the United States? That’s the question being asked after a Canadian woman was turned away by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as a result of being hospitalized for a mental illness last year.

 

50-year-old Ellen Richardson was due to fly to New York City where she would leave for a ten day cruise, but despite having entered the United States on several occasions since 2001, she was told by a DHS official at Toronto’s Pearson Airport that she would be refused entry, “because I had a hospitalization in the summer of 2012 for clinical depression.”