If you're applying for a visa it's because you don't have the right to enter. Not only is there no reason to apply for a visa if you already have the right to enter, it's usually illegal to do so.
> Theres nothing reasonable about investigating someones social media history, especially because opinions change over time. I dont want to see people in immigration detention because of a decade old social media post. This is the kind of behaviour that we used to criticise failed states for. "Its not safe for you to travel to syria because you gave a talk about human rights abuses of the assad regime" etc.
The US has always been unreasonable at the border. Nothing is changing there sadly.
Really hinges on how you use the word "right". There's plenty of people in Gaza that have a right to return to their homes, but are unable to thanks to some dicks with tanks and a big wall.
There are plenty of people worldwide who are unable to enter countries when they have an established right to. Like I said. "How do you know"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
>The US has always been unreasonable
True.
If a country thinks a place that you have a right to be, is that country, it doesn't diminish your right to be there.
Like for the right of return, it doesn't matter what flag is flapping in the wind, the refugees have an equal right to return to their homes. Its actually the missing link in most discussions about Israel. They could have their single state solution with literally zero fanfare if they just let everyone return to their land. The issue is that they have settled other people on that land in the mean time, and ultimately their goal has always been settlement. So they have to resist the return of those refugees.
"Therefore any country is allowed to investigate you" What for thought crimes?
Bootlicking levels are off the charts here. Theres nothing reasonable about investigating someones social media history, especially because opinions change over time. I dont want to see people in immigration detention because of a decade old social media post. This is the kind of behaviour that we used to criticise failed states for. "Its not safe for you to travel to syria because you gave a talk about human rights abuses of the assad regime" etc.
Americans rightly criticised Australia for preventing americans with wonky ideas from traveling to Australia.
Why is this view suddenly being normalised now that America wants to implement it?