Posted on 01/30/2017 9:36:05 AM PST by tcrlaf
An Australian teen was denied a visa to attend space camp in the United States today. The 15-year-old, Pouya Ghadirian, was born in Australia but his parents are from Iran, giving him dual citizenship. The visa denial is believed to be the first for an Australian citizen under the Trump regime’s so-called Muslim ban, interpreted by many legal scholars to be grossly unconstitutional.
The high school junior was planning to visit the US with other classmates this upcoming March. The teenager’s trip was to include visits to Orlando, Washington, D.C., and the Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. The Alabama space camp is known worldwide as a thrilling experience for kids interested in science, technology, and space exploration. Hollywood even made a movie about it in 1986. Staff at the US consulate in Melbourne were reportedly apologetic about the visa denial, and perhaps a bit shocked. No federal agency, from the State Department to the Department of Defense, was warned about Trump’s executive order before Friday, adding to the confusion.
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“They said it was the first time it had happened in an Australian embassy,” Ghadirian told the Sydney Morning Herald. “I cried at the consulate and I don’t normally.”
Breaks my heart. Not!
O, the hugh manatee!
Small price to pay for national security.
Sure the child of the San Bernadino shooters is a nice kid, too.
Good, another seat available to an American.
Oh the poor lad had to apply for a Waiverrrrrrrrr ....
the inhumanity
Tell it to Osama
Doesn’t Iran have a space camp?
Oh please! This crap again?
Time to trot out the sobbing victims. This stuff must really work because they keep using it every single friggin time
Disappointment is part of growing up,young man————you’ll survive.
Life is like that. I encourage his family to stand against Muslim terror. Maybe that would help.
Who cares? The kid probably is a terrorist-in-training. Given they retained their citizenship to Iran, they must agree with that terrorist state’s policies.
“...Trump regime’s...?” No bias there. </sarcasm>
The missile launch from Iran this morning probably took some of the “punch” out of this sob story.
Carter threw 15,000 Iranians (students and professionals) out of the US in 1979.
No problem
One of the most effective ways for terrorist organizations in other countries to ensure that their USA missions have the best chance of causing the greatest amount of impact is to have their operatives based in the USA travel back to their home bases to receive whatever final training/guidance they need to ensure the mission does what its intended to do. This Trump action makes it much harder for these organizations to do this now in the future as such potential operatives will undergo much stricter vetting.
LOLOL!!! Perfect!!
Maybe he and the guy who had his sleigh ride operation shut down during the 1996 government shutdown can get together and start their own space camp in Australia. Or Iran.
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