28 Jan 2014

‘Deport Justin Bieber’ petition gets thousands of signatures

A US petition to have bad boy teenybopper idol Justin Bieber deported from the US gets thousands of signatures, and looks set to warrant an official White House response.

Justin Bieber (picture: Getty)

The petition, titled “Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card“, had received more than 64,000 signatures by 3pm on Tuesday. If the petition reaches 100,000 signatures in 30 days, it will be reviewed by White House staff, assigned to a government department, and will warrant an official response.

The petition, posted online on 23 January, says the Canadian singer should have his green card revoked because he is “threatening the safety of our people” and is a “terrible influence on our nations youth”.

“We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture,” the petition reads.

We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked. Petition

“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.”

Justin Bieber has been a regular fixture in the news due to alleged bad behaviour. On the day the petition was launched he was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, on suspicion of driving under the influence, drag racing and for resisting arrest without violence. The driving charges were later dropped.

Days before, police searched his Florida home after it was reported that the singer had caused thousands of dollars of damage by pelting a neighbours home with eggs.

He is in the USA on an O-1 visa, a non-immigrant temporary worker visa for people with “extraordinary abilities”.