When hours passed, Bartmes traveled to Homan Square, only to be refused entry for nearly an hour.
Equally involving is new song What Is a Real VIP?, which imagines Bono arriving at the Pearly Gates to be refused entry for his overweening hubris.
Israel has denied entry to a prominent theologian and academic for her alleged activism in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement – the first time officials say a foreign national has been refused entry for that reason.
India's most famous artist, MF Husain, who died last week, was once refused entry for not wearing shoes while the choreographer Ananda Shankar was also turned away for not complying appropriately with the dress code.
But Belarus's parliamentary one last year was so bogus that they sent only "technical" monitors, and so far western observers have been refused entry for the vote in September.
However, following on from a year in which we've seen Lily Allen stripped of a work visa after assaulting a photographer, and Amy Winehouse refused entry for being, well, Amy Winehouse, it's become apparent that the US is becoming a bit self-important in the old border stakes.
Both were refused entry for being polygamists (which, admittedly, they were).
So you sacked it off, trudged to Spoons, and sat in near-silence over several jugs of sugar and E-numbers before being refused entry for the local student night.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection declined to discuss the specifics of Cortez-Martinez's case, citing restrictions in the Privacy Act, but a spokesman said the agency had wide latitude to refuse entry to non-citizens for violating hundreds of laws documented by dozens of agencies.
