Several top Kenyans won't didn't get visas and won't be at the Trials. Maybe there is hope for Fisher. In actuality, I'm kind of joking as it looks like they might give one of them a wild-card.
Several top Kenyans won't didn't get visas and won't be at the Trials. Maybe there is hope for Fisher. In actuality, I'm kind of joking as it looks like they might give one of them a wild-card.
Several top Kenyans won't didn't get visas and won't be at the Trials. Maybe there is hope for Fisher. In actuality, I'm kind of joking as it looks like they might give one of them a wild-card.
Just have them walk in through the completely porous southern 'border'.
Quite funny. I'd love to know from someone who works at the State Department what causes a pro athlete to get or be denied a visa. Anyone have a clue? Like considering we have MILLIONS of illegal aliens comign in each year, shouldn't we just give 100% of all pro athletes the visas?
But Ebenyo and Kiplagat getting the visas is kind of important as both of them are legit. Ebenyo won 10,000 and world half silver last year and is undefeated on the year while Kiplagat is 20 , won world xc bronze and ran 12:58 in China.
Just have them walk in through the completely porous southern 'border'.
Quite funny. I'd love to know from someone who works at the State Department what causes a pro athlete to get or be denied a visa. Anyone have a clue? Like considering we have MILLIONS of illegal aliens comign in each year, shouldn't we just give 100% of all pro athletes the visas?
But Ebenyo and Kiplagat getting the visas is kind of important as both of them are legit. Ebenyo won 10,000 and world half silver last year and is undefeated on the year while Kiplagat is 20 , won world xc bronze and ran 12:58 in China.
Quite funny. I'd love to know from someone who works at the State Department what causes a pro athlete to get or be denied a visa. Anyone have a clue? Like considering we have MILLIONS of illegal aliens comign in each year, shouldn't we just give 100% of all pro athletes the visas?
But Ebenyo and Kiplagat getting the visas is kind of important as both of them are legit. Ebenyo won 10,000 and world half silver last year and is undefeated on the year while Kiplagat is 20 , won world xc bronze and ran 12:58 in China.
Several top Kenyans won't didn't get visas and won't be at the Trials. Maybe there is hope for Fisher. In actuality, I'm kind of joking as it looks like they might give one of them a wild-card.
Several top Kenyans won't didn't get visas and won't be at the Trials. Maybe there is hope for Fisher. In actuality, I'm kind of joking as it looks like they might give one of them a wild-card.
You are probably not aware that there are several East Africans that have competed in the past 3-4 Pre meets that overstayed and simply quit athletics and are working illegally in the U.S. Two that I know of are living in the PacNW, one working at a liquor store and the other for a home health care agency. A third is living in AL working at a gas station. An Ethiopian from 2 years ago overstayed and lives in Brooklyn with friends. Not sure of his employment.
Thus, to answer Rojo, the State Dept is aware of this and they actually tracked down each athlete's agent. These athletes had B1/B2 visas, not corporate or attorney sponsored P1 visas. These recent athletes who just received their visas would have gotten B1/B2 visas.
The Biden administration turned away 3.2 million people in FY 2023, the most since 1980.
And allowed more to enter than any president in history.
But yet 45's wife got here on an Einstein visa, which was filled out with lies. None of the people like you bring it up and will make every excuse to justify it. A low level "model" aka soft porn, somehow got approved for a visa that's meant for people who actually excel in relevant fields. Funny how things work when you're of a certain color and shaped like a stick figure.
Quite funny. I'd love to know from someone who works at the State Department what causes a pro athlete to get or be denied a visa. Anyone have a clue? Like considering we have MILLIONS of illegal aliens comign in each year, shouldn't we just give 100% of all pro athletes the visas?
But Ebenyo and Kiplagat getting the visas is kind of important as both of them are legit. Ebenyo won 10,000 and world half silver last year and is undefeated on the year while Kiplagat is 20 , won world xc bronze and ran 12:58 in China.
just to be clear, we don't have millions of illegal immigrants coming in each year, we have millions of encounters with illegal immigrants at the border. The number of illegal immigrants who actually make it past the southern border into the US is orders of magnitude smaller. Most illegal immigrants in the country today are people who came legally and are overstaying their visa. That's why we don't just give pro athletes visas all willy nilly.
The only 'illegal' immigrants who aren't turned away are those who claim they're seeking asylum. I put illegal in quotes because people seeking asylum are following a legal process, but the issue we're facing now is that people who are not actually seeking asylum are told they need to say they're seek asylum, and international law dictates that you have to process asylum seekers. This has caused our immigration courts to be backed up by multiple years, and the holding facilities where illegal immigrants would go to be processed are full, which is why the "catch and release" policy is in place. We literally don't have anywhere to put them.
The bipartisan bill that Trump told Republicans to back out on would have addressed these issues by capping the number of people who could enter, and by giving way more resources (border officers, asylum agents, judges, money) to the courts so they can work through the backlog we already have. It also would have effectively ended catch and release The cap was an average of 5000 encounters/day for a week, or 8500 in a single day. Again, it's not that 5000 people would be let in every day, it's that 5000 people max would be detained, processed and deported (or granted asylum if they qualified). The rest would just be detained and deported. It's my understanding that this would go against international law, but I mean, it's not like anyone would be able to stop us. This also wasn't a problem when the asylum process started.
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