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> "You dont have the right to enter another country" How do you know.

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.


protocolture
>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.

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.

lmm OP
If a country is occupying or blockading land that doesn't belong to them, the problem isn't their visa procedures. It's not that you have a right to enter that country - you have a right to go to that land.
protocolture
Distinction without a difference. A country is a theoretical concept that is associated with a piece of land.

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.

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