A WOMAN holidaying in Costa Rica was denied entry onto a Glasgow flight – as President Trump’s ban on US-bound Muslim travellers is enforced.

Hamaseh Tayari, a UK resident with an Iranian passport, was due to fly home via New York but has been forced spend thousands on an alternative route home.

2 Hamaseh Tayari was refused entry onto the flight

The move came after Trump denied people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia entering the country for 90 days.

He has also suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days.

Hamaseh, who grew up in Italy, told The Guardian: “This has really shocked me. We just discovered [what Trump did] at the airport when we went to check-in.

“I want people to know that this is not just happening to refugees. I am a graduate and I have a Phd. It has happened to a person who is working and who pays tax.”

Tayari, who studied at Glasgow University, has now managed to figure out an alternative route home thanks to a crowdfunding page which has raised thousands of pounds for her flights.

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More than £6000 has been raised to cover Hamaseh and her boyfriend's £2,600 flights via Madrid and London.

She had previously revealed that she would be unable to return home to Glasgow because she wouldn't be able to afford the new tickets to take her through an alternative route.

Hamaseh added: “We had been saving for months for this holiday and it will cost me a month’s salary just to get home.

2 Trump also suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days Credit: EPA

“I am destroyed. I did not know that I could cry for so long. It feels like the beginning of the end. How this is possible? I am really afraid about what is going on.”

But the money raised by the crowdfunding page set up by Kathleen Caskie from the Women for Independence means that Hamaseh can now afford the tickets to return home.

Kathleen has said that donations will replace the money Hamaseh has had to spend on returning home and would "stick two fingers up to Trump".

Any left over money will be donated to the Scottish Refugee Council in "further protest against Trump's policies".

A spokesman for the University of Glasgow said: "We were extremely concerned at the difficulties which one of our postgraduate students encountered on trying to return to the UK via the United States after holidaying in Costa Rica.

"We have been in touch with Hamaseh who has made arrangements to get back to Glasgow via an alternative route.

"The university will do all that we can to support her."

Earlier today, we told how seven people, six Iraqis and a Yemeni, were stopped from boarding a flight from Cairo, Egypt, to New York today despite having valid visas to travel to America.

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