About 1,000 people a day are turned away trying to enter the US at airports, seaports and border crossings, said Lucille Cirillo, a spokeswoman for US Customs and Border Protection. Cirillo didn’t know how many are turned away for “moral turpitude”, which the dictionary defines as vileness or depravity.
However, Horsley regards his life as a work of art and sometimes art shakes people up. “I am a dandy,” he says. “And dandyism is a way of performing your life.”