A wave of artists is reconsidering tours on the fears of the frontier detention of the United States
A wave of musicians, poets and novelists say that they are reconsidering the next tours and travel for the fears of being arrested on the border between the United States or arrested within the country.
Canadian icon rock Neil Young, romantic novelist best -selling hazelwood ali, Police Mosaband British punk rock band Subs UK They are among those who have recently canceled the next tours, worry about what will happen if they go on tour or say they have already been denied entry into the United States.
Young, a double Canadian-American citizen known for successes like Golden heart, Cinnamon girl, AND Harvest MoonHe didn’t say he was erase his tour but expressed concern about it. He wrote On his website Tuesday That he is worried that his public criticisms towards the President of the United States Donald Trump could lead to problems on the border.
This comes Between relationships That the others who were critical of the president were detained or removed.
“When I go playing music in Europe, if I speak of Donald J. Trump, I could be one of those who return to America to which it is prohibited or put in prison to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” you wrote in the post.
“If I go back to Europe and I exclude myself, I can’t play my tour in the United States, all the people who purchased tickets will not be able to come to a concert from me.”
Young is scheduled to start his Love Earth World Tour In Sweden in June, with shows throughout Europe – including a set at the Glastonbury Festival in England – before playing shows in Canada and the United States in autumn. In another post on March 31stYoung wrote: “If you don’t agree with our government, you are prevented from entering or sending in prison.”
In the meantime, the best -selling romantic novelist Ali Hazelwood he canceled his tour of the April book in the United Kingdom on similar fears. Hazelwood, who was born in Italy but lives in the United States, is the author of different Booktok sensations, including Deep end, The hypothesis of love AND Wife.
“I break my heart to do it, especially the last minute,” wrote Hazelwood, who uses a pen name, in a Publish on his social media accounts on Wednesday.
“This is due to several complicated reasons that are mainly reduced to the fact that things are what they are, it is not possible for me to travel safely out and then again within the United States,” he added.
“Everything I can say is: I hope that things change quickly, I hope I can travel abroad soon, and I am deeply grateful for your support and understanding.”
Other singers stopped
CBC News contacted publicists for both Hazelwood and Young. Hazelwood’s team refused to provide a statement. Young’s team has not yet answered.
But their concerns are not without merit.
There have been multiple reports of people detained on the border, Denied entry OR blocked For weeks to detention facilities while trying to leave or enter the United States since Trump entered office on January 20. Several episodes of high profile of tourists and visa owners Being stopped at the US border crossings, or arrested in the United States, have made news in recent weeks.
Cassie and Maggie Macdonald, who tour as Cassie and Maggie, say that police officers in Ohio have accused them of having drugs in their car and asked if they prefer Canada or the United States – an interaction that is said that the office of the Sheriff of the County of Guernsey has been misrepresented. Look at the sisters’ interview with Amy Smith.
Last month, A Halifax -based folk musical duo He said that the police who pulled them on an Ohio highway accused them of having drugs in their rental car and asked them about their loyalty in a strange interaction that lasted almost an hour. The police say that the traffic stop was misrepresented.
The sisters Cassie and Maggie MacDonald of the Cassie and Maggie group were guiding a rental car on the interstate 70 in March and were talking on the phone with their mother when they noticed that they were followed by a police crossroader. The sisters said CBC Nova Scotia that the officers who stopped them asked if they preferred Canada or the United States
“I certainly didn’t want to say that Canada would be the answer they were looking for,” said Maggie Macdonald.
Also in March, the members of the British Punk Rock British UK SUS band said they had been denied entry to the United States Bassista Alvin Gibbs shared the details in a Facebook post on March 19, explaining that he and two other members of the band were marked with the stand for immigration after a flight of 11 hours from Europe for a performance in a Los Angeles Punk festival.
The officials reported two numbers, Gibbs wrote: who did not have the right visa for entry and that there was “another problem, which he would not reveal”.
“Now I wonder if my regular public statements and less than flattering concern their president and administration were a factor,” he wrote.
Gibbs wrote that his luggage, passports and phones were taken by him, and was retained at the airport for 25 hours before being escorted on a return flight home.
Detained students, the poet cancels events
The American administration has also used its powers for applying immigration to repress international students and scholars in various American universities who had participated in pro-Palestinian events or criticized Israel for its military action in Gaza. The Associated Press monitored about 10 students which have recently been detained.
For example, a university commercial student of the University of Minnesota is currently be detained by immigration and application of customs. Doğukan Günaydın, 28 years old, a Turkish citizen, says two in bourgeois federal officers he arrested him on the street Out of his St. Paul, Minn., At home while he was in progress last Thursday. Günaydın was in the United States on a student visa.
And for this reason, the award -winning Palestinian poet and author Mosab Abu Toha claims to have canceled all his next events. Toha, who was born in the Gaza strip and fled to the United States in December 2023, wrote on social media at the end of last week which had 16 events scheduled for the next five weeks in various US universities, including Stanford, Columbia, New York and Cornell.
“Unfortunately I had to cancel all my next events in the United States while I felt in the street, especially after seeing students and university professors kidnapped on the street in front of other people”, Toha, the author of Things you may find hidden in the ear, written on 28 March.
“I don’t even feel safe to take my children from school. These threats made online against me and my family are cowardly. And the serious threats and actions against freedom of speech are even more cowardly,” he wrote.
“You can’t imagine how much I was waiting to meet all of you, friends and others.”
Some Canadians traveling in the United States are nervous to cross the border between stories of people who have difficulty or even being detained. The Ravi Jain immigration lawyer has some advice for travelers on the border between the United States, whether they guide or at the airport. He spoke with Tom Murphy of the CBC.
