The Associated Press reports:
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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Owens has around ten million followers across multiple platforms. She has denied the Holocaust and the moon landings and has embraced every anti-vax, Flat Earth, chemtrails, weather control bit of QAnon batshittery imaginable. She’s also, of course, extremely anti-LGBTQ. And now the cult is screaming “cancel culture” on X.
The mass shooter of the mosque in New Zealand who murdered 50 people in cold blood named Candace Owens in his manifesto as someone who inspired him
So yeah banning her from New Zealand is pretty justified https://t.co/xOFa4bWOtq
— Ariana Jasmine (@arianajasmine__) November 27, 2024
Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia
— Associated Press 🤖 (@asssociatedpress.bsky.social) November 28, 2024 at 12:24 AM