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There was a Canadian VC that was banned for life at the US boarder for investing in a US cannabis company. Wonder if these guys will have problems.

alexc05 8y ago
Here's hoping saner among the electorate heads prevail and "life" winds up meaning 2 years (or hell... 47 more days)
throwaway2048 8y ago
If you are an American citizen you can not be bared from re-entry, no matter how much they might want to do so.
- kurthr 8y ago
  Well, your US passport can be confiscated and declared invalid... then you can be denied entry. Happened this year to people born in the Mexican border.
  - coolspot 8y ago
    Context for curious: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/30/revoking-passports-us-citizens/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/30/revoking-passports-us... "Between the 1960s and 1990s, dozens of midwives were convicted on fraud charges for claiming that babies who were born in Mexico were actually born in Texas. Although the actual number of babies for whom fraudulent U.S. birth certificates were issued was small in comparison to those who were legitimately born on American soil, Brodyaga said the cases have been used by the U.S. government to cast suspicion on anyone whose birth was attended to by a midwife "
  - sjg007 8y ago
    Yeah this is suspect though and without due process so I bet after a few ACLU lawsuits and a couple Federal judges intervening then this will stop.
    - dragonwriter 8y ago
      It'll probably be ordered to stop. Whether it will actually stop is...well, this administration hasn't been known for full and immediate compliance with other federal court orders relating to immigration and citizenship...
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > If you are an American citizen you can not be bared from re-entry, no matter how much they might want to do so. OTOH, the government can just decide you aren't a citizen and decide the documents you rely on to prove it are invalid or fraudulently obtained, and they can do so at any time. Historically, they generally haven't, but they absolutely can (and they've started presuming falsity for people born near the Mexican border in a wide time window and making them produce documentation that most people wouldn't be able to in order to prove citizenship, and ruling against them even when they manage to comply.)
- YokoZar 8y ago
  Indeed, the right of an American to enter America is "absolute, unconditional, and irrevocable". They can arrest you immediately, or quarantine you for whatever disease, but they can never turn you away if you insist on coming in. In theory. In practice, if the government doesn't want to believe you're a citizen then your right to enter isn't quite so strong.

alexc05 8y ago

Here's hoping saner among the electorate heads prevail and "life" winds up meaning 2 years (or hell... 47 more days)

throwaway2048 8y ago

If you are an American citizen you can not be bared from re-entry, no matter how much they might want to do so.

kurthr 8y ago
Well, your US passport can be confiscated and declared invalid... then you can be denied entry. Happened this year to people born in the Mexican border.
- coolspot 8y ago
  Context for curious: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/30/revoking-passports-us-citizens/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/08/30/revoking-passports-us... "Between the 1960s and 1990s, dozens of midwives were convicted on fraud charges for claiming that babies who were born in Mexico were actually born in Texas. Although the actual number of babies for whom fraudulent U.S. birth certificates were issued was small in comparison to those who were legitimately born on American soil, Brodyaga said the cases have been used by the U.S. government to cast suspicion on anyone whose birth was attended to by a midwife "
- sjg007 8y ago
  Yeah this is suspect though and without due process so I bet after a few ACLU lawsuits and a couple Federal judges intervening then this will stop.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    It'll probably be ordered to stop. Whether it will actually stop is...well, this administration hasn't been known for full and immediate compliance with other federal court orders relating to immigration and citizenship...
dragonwriter 8y ago
> If you are an American citizen you can not be bared from re-entry, no matter how much they might want to do so. OTOH, the government can just decide you aren't a citizen and decide the documents you rely on to prove it are invalid or fraudulently obtained, and they can do so at any time. Historically, they generally haven't, but they absolutely can (and they've started presuming falsity for people born near the Mexican border in a wide time window and making them produce documentation that most people wouldn't be able to in order to prove citizenship, and ruling against them even when they manage to comply.)
YokoZar 8y ago
Indeed, the right of an American to enter America is "absolute, unconditional, and irrevocable". They can arrest you immediately, or quarantine you for whatever disease, but they can never turn you away if you insist on coming in. In theory. In practice, if the government doesn't want to believe you're a citizen then your right to enter isn't quite so strong.