Petition to Deport Bieber Will Get White House Response

An online petition on the White House's "We the People" petitions website — which urges President Barack Obama to revoke 19-year-old pop star Justin Bieber's green card and deport him back to his home country of Canada — has reached the 100,000-signature threshold needed to prompt a response from policy officials in Obama's administration.

"Every petition that crosses the threshold will be reviewed by the appropriate staff and receive a response," a White House spokeperson told Mashable in an email.

However odd and timely the Bieber petition may be (he was arrested last week on charges of driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license), this isn't the first bizarre, entertainment-related petition to pop up on the We the People site Read more...