US influencer faces visa probe after taking baby Australian wombat from its mother in viral video: I dont expect she will return

The US influencer who sparked outrage when she ripped a wild baby wombat away from its distressed mother for a social media video is having her visa reviewed by the Australian government.Australia’s Minister for Immigration Tony Burke said the department is reviewing the video of Samantha Jones, also known as @samstrays_somewhere on Instagram, to see if her stunt violated the country’s wildlife laws, News.com.au reported.“The department is now working through the conditions on her current visa and determining whether immigration law has been breached,” Burke said in a statement on Thursday.Burke said the level of “scrutiny” Jones has faced over the video may be enough to keep her from returning to the Land Down Under.“Either way, given the level of scrutiny that will happen if she ever applies for a visa again, I’ll be surprised if she even bothers,” the upset immigration minister said.“I can’t wait for Australia to see the back of this individual, I don’t expect she will return.”In the now-deleted video that she posted to her more than 92,000 followers on Instagram, Jones snatched up the baby wombat on the side of the road in the middle of the night while the man filming her is heard laughing.As she runs toward the camera carrying the defenseless wombat, whose legs are dangling freely, its mother pops into view to chase after its baby.“Look at the mother, it’s chasing after her!” the man says while laughing hysterically.The video then cuts to her holding the baby wombat as it screams in fear.“Okay, mama is right there, and she is pissed, let’s let him go,” she said before the video ends.Jones wrote in the video’s caption that “the baby and mum were safely united.”Foreign Minister Penny Wong also called out the hunting influencer for her cruel video.“It looked pretty dreadful, didn’t it? I will leave those sorts of questions [about whether the influencer should be deported] to Tony Burke and to the authorities, but, r...