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.

  • Flying Squid
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    I won’t underestimate US racism though. I don’t think even a right-wing black woman could be elected president.

    • capital
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      I grew up in a deep red county in Texas.

      A few years ago I already had co-workers from that area talking about Candace Owens, saying they’d wish she would run.

      The left is over-indexing on racism. The right doesn’t care what the person parroting their idiotic talking points looks like.