
Canadian firefighter says he was denied entry to U.S.: 'Good enough to fight their wars but not good enough to cross their borders'
"I’m grounded — sidelined not by injury or lack of effort, but by bureaucracy and silence," Jamie Flynn said.
“This feels like a clerical error,” he said, and, he added, it’s cost him thousands of dollars. “I’m gutted. I’m angry. And I want answers.”We were good enough to fight their wars — but not good enough to cross their borders.”
Try Dubai. National Post posts at least one of these ‘bad America’ articles every week.Flynn told National Post that he is looking forward to being able to visit the U.S. again in the near future. He has since submitted a visa application.
Unfortunately, he said, the earliest available appointment is Feb. 11, 2027.
University of Toronto law professor and Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law Audrey Macklin said her advice for travellers going to the U.S. is to avoid it altogether “unless absolutely necessary.”
“Even at the best of times, states often treat non-citizens arbitrarily, and do not feel obliged to explain their actions,” she told National Post over email.
“This is sometimes justified on the ground that non-citizens do not have a right to enter, and therefore have no standing to complain about how a decision to admit or exclude is made. Since the rule of law is in free fall in the United States at the moment, the arbitrariness is more extreme, more coercive, and more frequent. That is why travellers should avoid the United States if they can.”
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