Originally Posted by
Ghoulish
Japanese immigration officials, like the overwhelming majority around the world, have wide latitude under law to exercise discretion.
Deportation in practice is reserved for egregious cases, not simple errors and certainly not in a case where common sense would prevail at one of the numerous levels of review that would take place before you were forced back into a plane.
What makes you so sure of this? Please share your source. Until then, it's pure speculation on your part.
Originally Posted by
Ghoulish
If indeed you've encountered "spiteful" US immigration officials, were you actually deported? Could they have? I presume if they were "spiteful", something about you paperwork wasn't in perfect order and yet, you almost certainly weren't deported.
My papers have always been in order, so no. If I showed up without a valid visa, I would fully expect to be deported.
You can keep pushing your xenophobic agenda all you want, but at the end of the day, OP was not legally admissable without a valid visa. It doesn't really matter if it was one hour, forty hours or two weeks. Immigration laws are not subjective.