A Rutgers University professor known for his scholarship on anti-fascism was prevented from leaving the United States for Spain on Wednesday night, hours after President Donald Trump held a White House event focused on cracking down on left-wing groups.

Mark Bray, a historian who published the 2017 book “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook,” said his family’s reservations were suddenly canceled as they attempted to board a flight at Newark Liberty International Airport. “‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’”

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Bray told The New York Times that the airline later rebooked the family for a Thursday eve

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