Reply #135: Free Speech Groups Sue Over Visa Denial (Sept 07)

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By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
Published: September 26, 2007

... The government is increasingly using secret evidence allowed under new antiterrorism laws to prevent certain critics from entering the United States, according to a group of civil rights and academic organizations ...

Under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, which was written in part to limit the entry of communists or their sympathizers, the United States has had a history of barring prominent intellectuals. Those denied entry visas over the years under McCarran-Walter have included the writers Gabriel García Márquez and Graham Greene as well as political figures like Pierre Trudeau, long before he became prime minister of Canada ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/us/26visa.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss