It’s their country. It’s their sovereign rule.
If a visitor does not want to follow the immigration laws of a country he or she enters? He has no room to bellyache. Same with our sovereignty. I’d be a hypocrite to insist any different based on my immigration related postings here for many years (particular illegal immigration).
True and like Idi Amin they can rig any competition within their borders so that they choose the winner. The rest of the world will call them out for their fraud.
It’s their country. It’s their sovereign rule.
Yes. North Korea is the country of people who live there. They make the rules.
You are missing the pint, Djokovic did not violate a single Immigration rule.
The minister is deporting through an extraordinaty clause of public interest where he considers a Djokovic a threat to society due to his anti vaccine views.
It is kind of action you would exoect from a North Korean leader and not a western nation.
They had already given him and about 10 other players exemptions and let them board flights and some had already started to play. Them Djockavic won in court and started to practice and then the government decided that letting an unvaccinated (he had covid already) play might send the wrong message to the sheep who are already vaccinated and to those who have not been. Strong arm PR move and ab embarrassing one at that.
I agree with you. I’ve never felt like I had a dog in this fight. In fact, if I were Djokovic I never would have fought the initial deportation order. Australia is a sovereign country and it can treat its visitors as well or as badly as it wants. I would have just said “Good riddance!” to the ‘effers and gone home.
Re: 38 - Agreed.
But there’s many FReepers that don’t. Because COVID. Or something.
We imported my stepdaughter’s two cats into Japan. And Japan has very strict surveillance of animal imports due to rabies. Cat must be microchipped. Blood drawn and sent to one of only two laboratories in the US to determine rabies titer (and has to be at a certain level). Cat must be quarantined for six months prior to import (although incredibly rare for cats to develop rabies that far from infection). USDA approved export paperwork which is only good for 10 days once signed. All information reviewed two times by Japan AQS prior to import. If it does not match on arrival, the cat gets held at Haneda until cleared, sent back to the point of origin, or euthanized.
Their country, their rules. Even had a DVM in Japan almost apologetically say the 6 month quarantine prior to import was “excessive”. But had to play by their rules no matter what.
Did get the cats there. And wants to come back to US to go back to College (all that work!). Well, at least it’s easier to fly them back ;)