• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    Is commander in cheif an active military position?

    Pretty sure that’s a bit of a loophole, he rides on Airforce One.

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    Until he’s sentenced, he’s free to walk around. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for November 26.

    However, if he appeals, expect him to continue to walk around free until the entire appeals process is completed.

    Now a convicted felon can forget about traveling to Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland. They share the U.S.'s felony database.

    You can still visit 99% of the rest of the world, though. Just need to not apply for any visas or ever fill out any customs paperwork admitting to it.

    Every country that says ‘Visa not required’ or ‘Visa on demand’, should be good to go. That includes Japan.

    Now, If a country has an ‘eVisa’, ‘ETA (Electronic Travel Authority)’ or ‘Visa required’, he’d probably won’t travel to those

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      34 minutes ago

      You can be free to walk around but that doesn’t mean Canada has to let you through immigration.

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      For the fifth time, he just needs to fill up some paperwork and the Canadian border service agency decides to allow him in or not, the same right is given to any person with a criminal record visiting Canada.

      George W. Bush has a record for DUI and the same process was necessary whenever he visited Canada, they never prevented him from entering the country, just like they’ll never prevent Trump from entering Canada.

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    This may be offtopic, but what do the third and forth flags next to the name of the creator of the post whose screenshot is being posted here mean?

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Technically, no. People have been turned away for DUI’s from decades earlier. But, as the other reply said, Trumpitler has “immunity.”

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    Diplomatic immunity, technically felon trump isn’t stepping into the country, there is a bubble of “USA” around him.

    Physically he is there, but whatever country’s jurisdiction doesn’t apply to him. Or any diplomat for that matter. 😓

    Edit: To clarify, it doesn’t mean he has the right to enter any country. A country can still declare a person “persona non grata” and ban people from entering including head of states, although I doubt any country is gonna deny the leader of the most powerful country (in terms of military strength) from a official visit because his convicted felon status.

    Diplomatic immunity is just gonna be the excuse a country uses to bypass any law in a country that may prevent a foreigner from entering.

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      That’s not how diplomatic immunity works, it’s for crimes committed inside the host country, the host country can refuse entry to anyone, even diplomats or presidents. Just because you’re the president of the US it doesn’t mean you can just show up in any country.

      Just like Bush for his DUI, Trump will need to have the paperwork necessary to be granted access to Canada as a person with a criminal record.

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          And your comment is still wrong. Diplomatic immunity has nothing to do with the process any foreigner with a criminal record can go through to visit Canada. It’s paperwork and it’s the same thing Bush was doing to visit Canada while he was president 20 years ago.

          https://ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=142&top=8

          Again, diplomatic immunity is about things the person does while inside the host country if they’re acting as a representative of their country and it only protects certain people, not anyone sent by a country and in Canada it doesn’t even apply to presidents/premiers/kings of foreign nations.

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      That’s not how diplomatic immunity works. A nation is welcome to ban entry to any foreign national.

      Diplomatic immunity is for crimes commited within a foreign nation. It’s also worth notting that the immunity can be revoked as well by the nation that said foreign national is from, there by allowing them to be arrested and tried under the local justice system.

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        How does it work when the diplomat / head of state has been sentenced by an international court for war crimes or crimes against humanity?

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          The host country can recognize it and arrest them… or not. Technically Mongolia should have arrested Putin when he visited not too long ago, they didn’t because that would have been political suicide.

          The international court is a completely different beast from a national court.

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    19 hours ago

    Trump will be granted access the same way Bush was (he has a DUI), there’s paperwork necessary that wouldn’t be if he didn’t have a record and that anyone can fill up in the same situation, entry will be granted by default for Trump, that’s the main difference.