ACLU: A History of Ideological Exclusions


	2005 - DORA MARIA TELLEZ (Nicaraguan Scholar and Former Minister of Health) Professor Tellez was forced to abandon her teaching post at Harvard after the government denied her a visa. She had visited the U.S. as recently as 2001. The denial was based on a terrorism provision, possibly invoked because of Tellez's role in the Nicaraguan revolution that toppled the Somoza regime. John Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard, remarked, "Under the rules the government now uses to issue visas, George Washington would be denied entry to the U.S."