In a way it's a story only notable because she's middle class and white. These kinds of things happened routinely to people with Arabic or "Muslim" names for a disturbing amount of time after 9/11. Maher Arar being the most famous case.

It is sad that this is now a priority for so many only now that it's affecting affluent white people.

They didn't care before, and they only care now for self-preservation.