if it works for Mugabe

Good grief:

U.S. immigration authorities are detaining foreign correspondents on grounds they have not obtained special visas
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True, there is a law stipulating a special visa for journalists, but few have ever heard of it and it is seldom enforced. No more. No one ever told the visiting journalists it had suddenly been revived.
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Peter Krobath, chief editor for the Austrian movie magazine Skip, was seized and held overnight in a cold room with 45 others who landed without visas.
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Six French journalists were marched across a terminal at Los Angeles International Airport in handcuffs
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The International Press Institute, based in Vienna, along with the International Federation of Journalists, headquartered in Brussels, is protesting this treatment. The U.S. response? An embassy official in Vienna insisted that the government was only acting in accordance with the letter of the law.