[22c]

Not sure how it works in the US but many countries can choose to deny entry for any reason and my understanding is they don't even need to provide a reason.

If that is the case here then I really doubt the researcher was told that they have been denied entry due to their personal opinions on the Trump administration. This really just leaves us to speculate.

[freejazz]

It wasn't clear to me that the issue here is a lack of legal authority for this to have occurred.

[cryptonector]

If legal authority or lack thereof is not the issue then the details matter if we're going to make an issue of this. I suspect that the researcher's private communications should not have caused them to be denied entry, though to be certain we'd have to see them.

Would a researcher who said something like "J6 should have gone all the way" have been denied entry in 2021? I suspect they would have, and that many would have cheered that refusal.

[freejazz]

>Would a researcher who said something like "J6 should have gone all the way" have been denied entry in 2021? I suspect they would have, and that many would have cheered that refusal.

On what basis do you have for this belief? Frankly, I think that's facially ridiculous.

[cryptonector]

Because lots of foreigners have been denied entry to the U.S. for lots of reasons like this in the past.

[freejazz]

Sorry I have not heard of a single instance where a foreigner was denied entry into the US because of their beliefs about January 6, I think you're going to need to support an assertion like that when you say it has happened "lots"