Comments on: Priego stopped at the border http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:24:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Steve J. http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-458041 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:55:49 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-458041 Here's the real story from Ernesto Priego himself, posted on Marc Singer's blog (http://notthebeastmaster.typepad.com/weblog/2007/10/us-government-b.html): "I appreciate the post, but I would like to say that I wasn't "denied entry"; my visa was not renewed, most probably because I did not apply for it in person and did not submit enough documents proving what I'd be doing in the States. So they didn't know I was going to a conference. I had just applied for a normal renewal. I don't want to make any further public comments on this matter, but I wanted to publicly clarify the distinction between being denied entry as a scholar and not having gotten the paper renewed. Information travels very fast on the Internet, and sometimes it gets distorted as it flies over the seas of bits and pixels. I am, of course, profoundly sorry I won't be able to attend ICAF..." Here’s the real story from Ernesto Priego himself, posted on Marc Singer’s blog (http://notthebeastmaster.typepad.com/weblog/2007/10/us-government-b.html):

“I appreciate the post, but I would like to say that I wasn’t “denied entry”; my visa was not renewed, most probably because I did not apply for it in person and did not submit enough documents proving what I’d be doing in the States. So they didn’t know I was going to a conference. I had just applied for a normal renewal.

I don’t want to make any further public comments on this matter, but I wanted to publicly clarify the distinction between being denied entry as a scholar and not having gotten the paper renewed. Information travels very fast on the Internet, and sometimes it gets distorted as it flies over the seas of bits and pixels.

I am, of course, profoundly sorry I won’t be able to attend ICAF…”

]]> by: MurrayC http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-457094 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:37:55 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-457094 Somewhere, Bill O'Reilly is giggling to himself like a schoolgirl Somewhere, Bill O’Reilly is giggling to himself like a schoolgirl

]]> by: Ray Tate http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456561 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:54:53 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456561 I think Bush has a morbid fear of intelligence. This would explain his inability to think. It's not the first time a visiting scholar has been denied entrance, since the so-called Patriot Act went into effect. The New York Times had a story about a music scholar who watched her visa being torn up and she being denied entrance to the United States. Ray I think Bush has a morbid fear of intelligence. This would explain his inability to think.

It’s not the first time a visiting scholar has been denied entrance, since the so-called Patriot Act went into effect. The New York Times had a story about a music scholar who watched her visa being torn up and she being denied entrance to the United States.

Ray

]]> by: The Gigcast » Blog Archive » webcomic Wire - 10/10/07 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456474 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:46:10 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456474 [...] Mexican scholar Ernesto Priego has been denied a visa for re-enter the United States for an appearance later this month at International Comic Arts Forum.  [...] […] Mexican scholar Ernesto Priego has been denied a visa for re-enter the United States for an appearance later this month at International Comic Arts Forum.  […]

]]> by: Bill http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456396 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/10/10/priego-stopped-at-the-border/#comment-456396 This kind of thing is so unbearably frustrating. When I was getting my MFA we had some foreign students who couldn't return for their second year because the government simply denied them access and wouldn't review the visas. We all got to campus and were saying, "Well where is so and so?" Oh, they weren't able to get back in the country for the semester. At the least the government is working hard to protect the people of this country from writers, comic scholars, and Cat Stevens. This kind of thing is so unbearably frustrating. When I was getting my MFA we had some foreign students who couldn’t return for their second year because the government simply denied them access and wouldn’t review the visas. We all got to campus and were saying, “Well where is so and so?” Oh, they weren’t able to get back in the country for the semester.

At the least the government is working hard to protect the people of this country from writers, comic scholars, and Cat Stevens.

]]>