Australia cancels Kanye West's visa over 'Heil Hitler' song
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The 48-year-old musician, who has legally changed his name to Ye, released 'Heil Hitler' on May 8, the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
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West — whose wife Bianca Censori is Australian — has been coming to Australia for some time because he has family in the country, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said.
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'He's made a lot of offensive comments. But my officials looked at it again once he released the 'Heil Hitler' song and he no longer has a valid visa in Australia.'
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'It was a lower level, and the officials still looked at the law and said: You're going to have a song and promote that sort of Nazism — we don't need that in Australia,' he told public broadcaster ABC.
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But he said immigration officials reassess each visa application.
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– 'Importing bigotry' –
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Australian citizens have freedom of speech, Burke added.
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'But we have enough problems in this country already without deliberately importing bigotry.'
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Kanye West's 'Heil Hitler' song stirred public opposition last week in Slovakia when it was announced he would be playing a concert there in July.
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More than 3,000 people signed a petition against West's performance in the Slovak capital.
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The rapper — a vocal supporter of US President Donald Trump — is 'repeatedly and openly adhering to symbols and ideology connected with the darkest period of modern global history', two groups behind the petition said.
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'Kanye West's concert in our city and our country is an insult to historic memory, a glorification of wartime violence and debasement of all victims of the Nazi regime,' the petition read.
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In the 'Heil Hitler' clip, dozens of Black men — wearing animal pelts and masks, and standing in a block formation — chant the title of the song, as West raps about being misunderstood and about his custody battle with ex-wife Kim Kardashian.
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