Under the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, the government was able to bar intellectuals such as Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Graham Greene from entering the U.S. Now, according to a group of civil rights organizations, the government is putting new teeth in the enforcement of this law by using secret information obtained under new antiterrorism laws to prevent critics of the U.S. from entering. One ACLU lawyer noted, it “seem[s] that what the government has done is taken the communist-era playbook and replaced every instance of the word communist with terrorist.” (NY Times)
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