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Demovictory9

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Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:23 AM Wednesday

Trump is using every agency of the US govt for petty revenge: Nobel Laureates VISA revoked

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/oscar-arias-sanchez-visa-trump.html

Nobel Laureate and Ex-Leader of Costa Rica Says U.S. Revoked His Visa
Óscar Arias Sánchez, twice president of Costa Rica, has been a vocal critic of President Trump, describing him as acting like a “Roman emperor.”


Óscar Arias Sánchez, the Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican president, said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked his visa to enter the country, with no reason given.

A vocal critic of President Trump, Mr. Arias appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who have had their visas canceled or been denied entry as the Trump administration bars people who it says have “hostile attitudes” toward the United States.

Mr. Arias, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for brokering a plan to end the civil wars in Central America, said he had received a short email from the U.S. government informing him that his visa had been revoked.

At a news conference in San José, the capital of Costa Rica, he said that the email, which he received Tuesday morning, cited Section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows the secretary of state and consular officials to revoke visas at their discretion
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Trump is using every agency of the US govt for petty revenge: Nobel Laureates VISA revoked (Original Post) Demovictory9 Wednesday OP
I've come to the conclusion that pettiness is the defining characteristic of the Turd Reich. Hugin Wednesday #1
This cannot continue. orangecrush Wednesday #2

Hugin

(35,961 posts)
1. I've come to the conclusion that pettiness is the defining characteristic of the Turd Reich.
Wed Apr 2, 2025, 07:30 AM
Wednesday

After spending a lifetime being the the target of pettiness I can say it’s very difficult to fight. A million craven cowardly passive/aggressive indignities that bring down a giant.

Personified by Trump, Miller, Voight, and yes, Skum himself. Small men.

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