re: #123 Patricia Kayden

Wow. I’m shocked. This is so ugly and unnecessary. He was born in the U.S. for goodness sakes.

Yes, and he gave up his citizenship, in order to avoid paying US taxes, as he says right in the article:

“Funny thing, I gave up my U.S. passport to make life simpler at tax time. I never dreamed I would one day be denied entry, and with such ridiculous reasoning.”

Non-citizens have to get visas, just like US citizens have to get visas to go anywhere else (we have a lot of treaties to make it trivial, but it’s still a visa in the background).

He may be a great musician and nice man, but my sympathy is limited.