Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker: the US commentators banned from the UK

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  This is The Guardian.

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  Today, the left-wing US commentators banned from coming to Britain.

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  A few days ago, Cenk Uygur was at the airport.

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  So I went to LAX in Los Angeles, going to Heathrow.

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  Didn't think twice about it.

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  I have that ETA lasts two years, and since I'd come to speak at Oxford last year, it was still in effect.

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  An ETA, an electronic travel authorization, allows travelers to enter the UK.

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  But Cenk, a left-wing commentator and host of the Young Turks YouTube channel, was having some problems.

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  I couldn't log on from my computer, which I found to be a little bit strange,

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  but I thought, oh, I'll probably have to give the ETA number at the terminal.

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  So I go to the terminal and...

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  A woman comes to help me and she tries to check me in through a kiosk and says, oh, that's weird.

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  I can't check you in.

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  Let's go look at my computer terminal.

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  And she does.

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  And she says, oh, wow, I've never seen this.

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  You've been rejected by the British government.

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  We're not allowed to put you on the plane.

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  You can't board because the British government has withdrawn your ETA and said you're not allowed to enter the country.

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  How did you feel?

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