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| No comment on Bieber deportation petition, says White House Posted: 18 Apr 2014 06:30 PM PDT Just under 275,000 people have added their names to a petition on the White House website calling for the Canadian's deportation from the United States, easily surpassing the threshold of 100,000 signatures required for presidential consideration. But the White House said yesterday that it would not comment, citing terms in its "We the People" programme that allows it to decline certain petitions. Instead, it sought to use the attention given to the petition to argue that an overhaul of the immigration system would spur the US economy and shrink Washington's ballooning deficit by nearly IS$1 trillion during the next 20 years. "For those of you counting at home, that's 12.5 billion concert tickets – or 100 billion copies of Mr Bieber's debut album," the White House said. "You better believe it," it added, an apparent reference to the "Belieber" term used to describe Bieber's legions of adoring, mostly pre-teen female fans. The petition was created by a "J.A." in Detroit on January 23, the day Bieber was busted in Miami Beach for alleged impaired driving and illegal drag racing in a flashy Italian sports car. "We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture," it says. "We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive and drug-abusing Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. "He is not only threatening the safety of our people but he is also a terrible influence on our nation's youth. We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society." Bieber, 20, is understood to be living and working in the US under a renewable O-1 visa for entertainers, rather than a green card for permanent resident status. It remains unclear whether Bieber's visa would be affected by his arrest. Bieber also faces an assault charge in Canada for allegedly striking a limousine driver on the back of the head. – AFP, April 19, 2014 |
| Rap star Chris Brown to go on trial Monday Posted: 18 Apr 2014 05:50 PM PDT If convicted, Brown could face up to six months in jail and a US$1,000 fine. Brown, 24, appeared in court yesterday in the US capital in a crisp suit that made him look more like a genteel Wall Street banker than an actor, dancer and rap artist. He stood with his hands by his side as Judge Patricia Wynn instructed him to return next week for the start of his trial. In court supporting him was his mother Joyce Hawkins, friend and model Karrueche Tran and rapper Bow Wow, who the day before moderated a discussion with First Lady Michelle Obama at Washington's Howard University. Wynn put back the trial date after deciding she needed the Easter weekend to reach a verdict in a related case involving Brown's bodyguard Chris Hollosy, 35, outside the downtown W Hotel on October 27 last year. "I have to be confident about my verdict. I need to take my time," the District of Columbia Superior Court judge said. Prosecutors say Parker Adams, 20, from a Washington suburb, was punched in the nose by Brown and Hollosy when he tried to get a picture with Brown alongside two women. Lawyers for the bodyguard questioned Adams' side of the story, citing a pending US$3 million civil suit that he has filed against the two defendants. Brown, who took the Grammy award for best R&B album in 2012 with "F.A.M.E.", was sentenced to five years' probation and community service, as well as domestic violence counselling, after he pleaded guilty to assaulting R&B diva Rihanna in February 2009. Federal marshalls brought him overland to Washington this week from Los Angeles, where on March 17 a federal judge remanded him in custody for allegedly breaching the terms of his probation in the Rihanna case, pending an April 23 hearing. Just three days earlier, Brown had been booted out of a rehab facility in Malibu, California where he reputedly declared during a group therapy session that he was "good at using guns and knives." – AFP, April 19, 2014 |
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