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David Cameron has been urged to help a British Muslim family who US border guards banned from a dream trip to Disneyland.

Mohammad Tariq Mahmood's family of 11 - including nine children - saved £9,000 for the holiday but were stopped minutes before boarding a flight at Gatwick Airport.

They say a US Department of Homeland Security official gave them no reason for cancelling their permission to travel to Los Angeles.

Today Mr Mahmood said he was "devastated" and revealed the decision had left his children in tears.

His local MP Stella Creasy has written to the Prime Minister calling on him to step in after the "harsh" decision - and warned more families are affected.

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She told the Mirror: "This is not just one family, this is a growing issue. A lot of residents are now saying they won’t even bother trying to fly to the States.

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"We don’t know how many families are affected and what monitoring they do. Nobody knows what’s going on here. Surely there’s more information to be had here?

"What I am worried about is the fear of isolation among the Muslim community.

"There are people trying to divide my local community along religious groups and this sort of issue feeds that division."

Mr Mahmood said his family were approved under the Visa Waiver programme, which allowed up to 90 days in the US, before trying to board the Norwegian Airlines flight on December 15.

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He told ITV News: "It's devastating. It's like we were alienated, the way we were just taken out of the room.

"[The children] were devastated, they were really heartbroken. They had tears in their eyes because that was something for them.

"They had been planning this for months."

The resident of Walthamstow, east London, said the reason he'd been banned was "obvious".

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He told the Guardian: "It’s because of the attacks on America – they think every Muslim poses a threat."

Mr Mahmood was travelling with his brother and nine of their children to visit cousins in Southern California, where they would have visited Disneyland and Universal Studios.

The ban came just days after Donald Trump called for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".

David Cameron blasted the Republican Presidential hopeful's "divisive" comments and Jeremy Corbynsaid Mr Trump should learn the truth by visiting a British mosque .

But Labour backbencher Ms Creasy warned Britain was "shrugging our shoulders" at Muslim families' plight.

She wrote in her letter to the PM: "It is not the first time a constituent of Muslim faith has been stopped and sent home in this way.

"A week on no further contact has been made with the family to either investigate the reasons why they should not be allowed to flyor to explain why this decision was taken.

"As such they cannot challenge the decision of the Airline to not provide a refund, and there is a growing concern for many here that their faith was the reason for the refusal to let them enter America.

"I note that other similar examples of such incidents also involving UK Muslim travellers have begun appearing in our media in recent weeks.

"It is absolutely vital that we cooperate with other countries and across communities in tackling terrorism, and that we are able to confidently show that prejudice has no part in this work."

Downing Street said it was looking into the family's claims.