That’s good. Let’s destroy the tourism industry. I thought Cheeto and his drooling followers were all about more jobs, not fewer.
There are plenty of people in the world, if a few anti-USA people and people who suffer from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) decide to not visit, then that’s a great thing.
Is the extremist part the belief in the value of multiculturalism?
Is that it?
Yes, all multiculturalists are extremists.
She advocates literacy. Something Blinky is averse to.
How do you know she’s anti-US? How do the security idiots in airports know if a particular tourist is anti-US?
Did you ever consider that people won’t come here to avoid the possible hassle?
Security takes precedence over the feelings of a few liberals and other suspicious visitors to the USA.
If getting asked a few questions is too much of a hassle for certain leftists to handle, then they are welcome to stay home.
and so we can see how the Americans build their great reputation in the world, and we can expect the great expansion of the tourism.
Of course for the nativist American frange, no care it is expected, but these stories are multiplying wildly and the impact on your image is not a single old lady, it is many of these, combinging with your orango Berlosconi rip-off randomly insulting allies, etc.
yes one old white tourist / visitor does not matter.
the trend, it can matter.
but perhaps this is not learned from reading archaic out of date histories.
Well that was her 117th visit to the US so maybe she has only just recently become a suspicious visitor.
I can only find one book by her which might be described as advocating multiculturalism. It’s called I’m Australian Too, and it won’t be published until March 1st of this year. Blinkyandpinky, are there any other of her books that you consider to be extremist or multicultural? Which ones? Describe why you think that they are extremist or multicultural. How do you know that she is anti-U.S.? If she is, why has she visited the U.S. 117 times since 1985 (if I understand the news stories correctly)? Apparently her books are quite popular in the U.S. and she is often asked to speak here. Please give us some details about why you think you know what Fox advocates. Please, none of this, “oh, you know, so I don’t have to explain it” stuff. Tell us exactly what she advocates that would make her a bad person to allow in the U.S.
Security? What the hell do you think an elderly woman was going to do?
For all the accusations of liberals being snowflakes, you GOP fuckers are frightened of everything.
She slandered the POTUS by claiming that he’s an extremist. She should stay home and play with the kangaroos instead.
She is the extremist.
President Donald Trump had created the climate for this sort of behaviour, she said, adding: “This is what happens when extremists take power.”
She’s just another leftist apologist for multiculturalism and hopefully she never sets foot in the USA again.
I was just reading one of her books today, for the forty bazillionth time. The gist of it is that babies from different places all have - wait for it - ten little fingers and ten little toes. Not all of these babies are white.
It’s multiculturalism run amok. If that isn’t extremism, well, what is?
The short version is if an Australian Passport holder is visiting the US for a holiday or business meetings (including attending an academic conference), we don’t need a visa. We need an Electronic Travel Authority, though, but that takes about 15 minutes to organise online.
However, if an Australian is coming to America for anything that might be considered “work” (or where they’re getting paid by an American company), then we need a visa. Journalists and media also require a visa, even if they’re employed by an Australian media outlet. Also anyone working in the entertainment industry (TV/Movies), or athletes competing in sports - again, even if they’re employed/paid solely in Australia. Student visas are also required for anyone from Australia wanting to go to university in the US.
Obviously visas are also required if an Australian wants to immigrate to the US.
And Mem Fox is a highly respected children’s author in Australia - her books are well known to generations of parents and children.
I’m not for a moment defending the treatment Ms Fox says she received, but the US visa system is surprisingly complicated. I don’t have all the details of this incident but it’s possible the border control person thought she was doing something related to “work” rather than attending a conference, which may not have been acceptable on the visa she was travelling on.
It’s slander to call the guy who called for extreme vetting an extremist? When he vets you in an extreme way?
How stupid are you?
Wacky, leftist, old white women can be quite a threat, especially those that are on the side of the enemy.
Do you really work hard to be an asshole like this, or does it just come naturally?
Sorry, she’s an American. Another home-grown criminal. Why are you punishing the world for our failures?
Next, link to Ms. Fox’s criminal record.
Personally I’d be more concerned about the movie playing in the heads of the US immigration officials who patently do give an awful lot of shit about what a 70yo grandmother might do while on a speaking trip to the USA.
You see this is where the left-wing media sideshow has got seriously off the main story.
Who are these malcontents, agitators and activists in Milwaukee who invited this women? Where are the pre-dawn raids to root out this insidious corruption of American values?
Who invited an author, if that term is appropriate who’s picture book Baby Bedtime implied a lest than apple-pie wholesome, nae bestial relationship between humans and pachyderms. Into whose pockets do the profits of this subversive literature go?
She has a daughter, a single mother to boot, who is active in a left wing political party which believes in pro-choice and universal health care? Even won the seat of Bright in Adelaide. Aren’t the neon warning signs flashing?
You guys let Milo Yiannopoulos into the States, no problem at all. Think about it. This must be a bigger fish. What aren’t they telling us?
Blinkandpinky, did you even bother to notice that this sentence, “‘President Donald Trump had created the climate for this sort of behavior’, she said, adding: ‘This is what happens when extremists take power’” refers to something that happened after she had been detained and questioned while visiting the U.S. and after returning to Australia? You’re bothered because after something unjustified happens to her, she complains about it? So does this also mean, for instance, that if someone is grabbed and beaten by border agents at an airport despite having a valid passport and visa to enter the U.S. and then thrown back on an airplane to return to their own country, still injured badly, and then when interviewed after reaching their home country, they complain about it, you think that makes them a terrible person?