The U.S. conservative political commentor Candace Owens was refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials said Thursday.

News of the ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II.

Owens is scheduled to speak at a series of events in several Australian cities and in Auckland, New Zealand, in February and March next year. Tickets remain on sale and there is no acknowledgement on the promoter’s website that she has been refused entry to both countries.

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    10 hours ago

    Banned from two countries for being a neonazi, yet spoke at my uni twice, and protected by cops.

    Make it make sense.

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      America - home of the free to be any kind of piece of shit you can think of.

      Australia - throws you in jail for doing Nazi things

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        Something something sitting at a table with nazis…

        Sure other places aren’t perfect, but this seems like an easy one to settle. The bill of rights have limits as already established by US courts, why in “defense” of the 1st amendment does the US feel like it has to be a nazi? I can’t answer that, I don’t ascribe to whatever belief they’ve got over there.

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          Nothing is “settled by the courts” with the current corrupt judges. The law is whatever they say it is. You have no rights, and nobody within the system will defend you.

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            I’m just saying if your courts have already established the amendments have limits, like you said “you have no rights”, then there’s no excuse to defend nazis unless they’re the only ones with rights. The decision to allow hate speech and Nazi sympathisers to spread again is a choice, which makes the whole table a table of nazis.