Ideological Exclusion - Timeline | American Civil Liberties Union

Ideological Exclusion - Timeline

July 24, 2006

During the Cold War, the U.S. government abused the immigration laws in order to exclude prominent artists and intellectuals. None of these individuals represented any danger to national security. They were excluded simply because the U.S. government wanted to prevent U.S. citizens and residents from meeting with them and hearing their ideas.
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	1952	IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT PIERRE TRUDEAU (Former Prime Minister of Canada) GRAHAM GREENE (Novelist)
	1953	JAN MYRDAL (Author)
	1957	YVES MONTAND (Actor, Singer)
	1950s, 60s	NAZIM HIKMET (Turkish Poet)
	1962	GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ (Novelist, Nobel Laureate) CARLOS FUENTES (Novelist)
	1966	PABLO NERUDA (Poet, Nobel Laureate)
	1969	DORIS LESSING (Novelist) ERNEST MANDEL (Economist)
	1971	OSCAR NIEMEYER (Architect)
	1980	DARIO FO (Playwright, Nobel Laureate) and FRANCA RAME (Actress)
	1982	GENSUIKYO (Japanese Antinuclear Group) and GYOTSU SATO (Buddhist Monk, Leader of Gensuikyo) ANGEL RAMA (Scholar)
	1983	NINO PASTI (Former NATO Deputy Supreme Commander, Forrmer Italian Senator) HORTENSIA BUSSI DE ALLENDE (Widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende)
	1984	MARITZA RUIZ (Leader of El Salvador's Comadres)
	1985	FARLEY MOWAT (Novelist)
	1986	CHOICHIRO YATANI (Professor) PATRICIA LARA (Journalist)
	1990	JIM HUNTER(Union Leader)
	2002	JOHN CLARKE (Organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty)
	2003	NELSON MANDELA (Former President of South Africa) and TOKYO SEXWALE and SIDNEY MUFAMADI (African National Congress Activists) CARLOS ALZUGARAY TRETO (Scholar, Former Ambassador to the European Union)
	2004	TARIQ RAMADAN (Scholar, Author) 61 CUBAN SCHOLARS
	2005	DORA MARIA TELLEZ (Scholar, Former Nicaraguan Minister of Health) FERNANDO RODRIGUEZ (Human Rights Lawyer) WASKAR ARI (Bolivian Aymara Indian Scholar)
	2006	IÑAKI EGAÑA (Basque historian) M.I.A. (Sri Lankan-born Hip-Hop Artist) 74 SOUTH KOREAN ACTIVISTS YOANNIS "JOHN" MILIOS (Greek Marxist Economist)

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PRESS RELEASES
> U.S. Government Increasingly Blocks Entry at Border Because of Ideology (7/12/2006)
> Federal Judge Says Government Must Act on Muslim Scholar’s Visa Request (6/23/2006)
> Actors and Writers Read Works from Luminaries Censored at the Border (4/27/2006)
> Government Backs Away From Claim That Swiss Muslim Scholar Endorsed Terrorism (4/25/2006)
> ACLU Asks Federal Court to Lift Visa Ban on Tariq Ramadan (4/13/2006)
> Patriot Act Exclusion of Swiss Scholar Challenged (1/25/2006)

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