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Originally posted by DEVERSE:
The story doesn't say, but I wonder if she was given the choice to pay $600.00 (or more) USD and then be allowed to enter the US.

There is a US Entry Waiver. If you have ever been arrested or have any kind of "undesirable" record, you apply for a entry waiver with a long list of steps and fees included. At the end, if you pay the fee, the USA will "pardon" you for 6 months or a year or just for the duration of your trip.

The USA does not recognize a pardon issued by Canada or another country, it has to issue its own pardon and it doesn't matter how old the record is either, the USA must issue a pardon. I know a fire fighter who got a DUI in 1991 who was pardoned in Canada and was refused entry to the USA unless he "paid the waiver fee".

It isn't about security or safety, because they will let whomever into the country if the fee is paid - its about getting more money.

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think it's kind of disturbing.

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I think it's kind of disturbing.

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Nothing "kind of" about it.

I wouldn't call this a people problem though, it's a government problem. Yet another over-reach of the US police state.

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
I wouldn't call this a people problem though, it's a government problem. Yet another over-reach of the US police state.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
I'd be interested in knowing more details of her 2012 hospitalization for depression. If she was involuntarily committed, or was considered a danger to herself or others (she did attempt suicide in 2001, after all), there might be reason to consider her a risk.

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Whoah, whoah, whoah there, hang on just a minute. You're speakin about BARRY'S transparent administration and all now...not W's , right ?

I know, not a reflection of him or any President. Just , as noted , a tyrannical govt.

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Originally posted by AgentRouka:
I find it extremely unlikely that she could credibly be considered a risk. It's an abuse of information that the border guard had no business knowing.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yeah, but if we keep people from traveling FOREVER because of past issues with depression the airlines would be out of business...

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
That's the point that geezer is avoiding. The guard had no business knowing this information. I want to know how he got it. So now the FSA is hacking foreign medical records and creating "danger" lists from that? It's truly out of control.

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INA: ACT 212 - GENERAL CLASSES OF ALIENS INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE VISAS AND INELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION; WAIVERS OF INADMISSIBILLITY
Sec. 212. [8 U.S.C. 1182]

(a) Classes of Aliens Ineligible for Visas or Admission.-Except as otherwise provided in this Act, aliens who are inadmissible under the following paragraphs are ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted to the United States:

(1) Health-related grounds.-

(A) In general.-Any alien-

(i) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to have a communicable disease of public health significance; 1b

(ii) 1 except as provided in subparagraph (C) 1a who seeks admission as an immigrant, or who seeks adjustment of status to the status of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, and who has failed to present documentation of having received vaccination against vaccine-preventable diseases, which shall include at least the following diseases: mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, influenza type B and hepatitis B, and any other vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices,

(iii) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Attorney General)-

(I) to have a physical or mental disorder and behavior associated with the disorder that may pose, or has posed, a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others, or

(II) to have had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder, which behavior has posed a threat to the property, safety, or welfare of the alien or others and which behavior is likely to recur or to lead to other harmful behavior, or

(iv) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Oh, I thought this would be a clip of the lady at the Black Friday deals with a baby getting trampled on endless loop.

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Originally posted by reaverfan:
You can't blame Obama for the police state. That was all on Bush.
You can blame him for not doing anything to alter it, though. He's not the radical commie Muslim socialist Nazi the teanderthals say he is. He's a center-right Democrat.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
Oh, I thought this would be a clip of the lady at the Black Friday deals with a baby getting trampled on endless loop.

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Where IS this clip of which you speak? I've looked several times...
I need to shake my head and feel superior

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