Right of entry argument ignores US rules
Immigration policy is a sovereign decision. US regulations require visa applicants to supply evidence that they would 'return home after their legally authorised stay'.
Many Hong Kong women who want to visit the US after graduation or a few years of work have failed to obtain a US visa because being young and single can be misconstrued as evidence of their lack of intention to return home after entering the US.
In contrast, US citizens, including high school dropouts without any decent work record, are entitled to visa-free entrance to Hong Kong.
Why are our lawmakers, who have never urged the government to get tough with the US over unequal visa policies, so quick in taking Macau to task for denying University of Hong Kong law professor Johannes Chan Man-mun's entry?
Macau has no less right than the US to deny entry to people it considers persona non grata.
The Macau government is accountable to Macanese and not to Hong Kong lawmakers who seem intimidated by populist dogmas of democratic fundamentalism and obsequious to society's vociferous minority sector.
