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Cross in a little more than two months Neil Young the Atlantic for its first European tour in six years. In view of the most recent measures by the Trump government, he fears that he will no longer be able to enter after the tour has been completed.
“When I talk about Donald J. Trump, I could be one of those who return to America and are banned from entering or being banned or put into prison to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum ceiling”, “, he wrote in the Neil Young Archives. “This is constantly happening. Countries have new advice for those who return to America. When I come back from Europe and are banned from entering, I can’t play my USA tour. And all the people who bought tickets cannot come to a concert from me.”
“That’s right, people,” he continues. “If you say something bad about Trump or his government, as a Canadian you may no longer be able to enter the USA. If you have a double citizenship like me, who knows?”
In the prison of El Salvador
Young’s message comes after the Trump government deported Venezuelan migrants, of which it claimed that they were part of organized gangs. Sometimes deported only due to tattoos or clothing that were associated with the gang. In one case the Mask artist Andry José Hernández Romero sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Although there was no credible evidence that he was part of a gang. His tattoo was in honor of his mother.
Others were deported solely because they had expressed their political beliefs. Underneath Rumeysa Ozturk. A Turkish master student at Tufts University, The one guest commentary for The Tufts Daily had written in which she asked the president of the university to deduct school money from Israel.
Young has double citizenship
Young fears that he will face a similar fate if he expresses his opinion abroad. Although he has double citizenship. “If the fact that I think Donald Trump is the worst president in the history of our country, could prevent me from getting back, what does that say about freedom?” He asked. “It seems to me that if you have chosen Kamala Harris instead of Trump, you can go to prison or be detained. In order to be punished in any way, not to show your loyalty to whatever. What is the? Trump is unable to assert yourself against someone who does not match his ideas?”
He ended his note with a quote from the loyalty. “A country. Definitely. With freedom and peace for everyone,” he writes. “Do you remember that? I already.”