By Katherine Tinsley
2:32pm PDT, Jun 8, 2025
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CNN journalist
Christiane Amanpour, who is British-Iranian, recently compared traveling as a non-citizen to the U.S. under
Donald Trump's administration to visiting North Korea.
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On the Wednesday, June 4, episode of her "The Ex Files" podcast, Christiane Amanpour admitted that she has become cautious while traveling to America. While chatting with her ex-husband, James Rubin, Amanpour admitted she used a "burner phone" during a recent visit to speak at Harvard.
"I must say I was afraid. I'm a foreigner. I don't have a green card," she said.
"I'm not an American citizen," she continued. "I'm fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone, Jamie. Imagine that, James."
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Christiane Amanpour shared that she contacted CNN's security staff before she traveled to Massachusetts to address her concerns about foreigners being detained and interrogated.
"I even talked to the CNN security person because of this — I've heard that [people] including British citizens are being stopped at the border and questioned for hours and hours and hours," she said.
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Ultimately, Christiane Amanpour made it to Massachusetts without issue: "So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I'm afraid, what do others think?" she said.
