Deporting young Americans is kind of zero tolerance we can do without

LAST Friday three clean-cut young American backpackers arrived at Dublin airport from Texas. They were setting out on the first international leg of a yearlong trip around Europe.

However, they were ordered to return to US by an immigration official at the airport. “She treated us like we were criminals,” Colin Zwirko, 21, said later.

They were not admitted because they lacked an address where they planned to stay and they did not have bank statement to prove they could afford to travel.