The horrors of this time in our country’s history are breathtaking and mind numbing. There is a sickness deep in our national psyche that is propelling us toward certain disaster. Any one of us could find ourselves in the crosshairs of this aberrant administration.
My mother was a WW2 war bride from Australia. She was my father’s nurse while he was recuperating from Malaria, contracted in New Guinea. They married here after the war. She was a green card naturalized citizen until she died at age 97. Becoming an American citizen was not in her plan. But she paid her taxes & loved our country and raised me to love my country as she loved hers and America. Now I’m left with trying to understand what Miller’s idea of citizenship really is….
This is beyond disgusting and unacceptable. We are stooping to take AWAY citizenship from those who filed legally or followed laws to obtain it. Perhaps someone should look into how the president's grandfather received (?) citizenship here, because there is QUITE a story with how that man, back in the 1800s, fled Bavaria to come here and avoid a draft. He made money here and went back home to be stripped of HIS actual citizenship there for running away and evading mandated draft duties. I wonder about the details of THAT story to know what happened there. While we are invading everyone else's privacy, should no one be free from scrutiny then, especially at the highest level's where these decisions are being made? Most likely, there is a "there there" with some skeletons hiding in closets.
Ha ha. My husband is a Scot, born in Canada and naturalized at the age of 18. with his Scottish parents, as a US Citizen, in the blue state of New Jersey. "Jokingly" I asked him if he had ever committed a crime that might allow for his deportation, now. He chuckled and admitted to one speeding ticket and a citation for an expired safety inspection sticker. (He never even mentioned the fact that he sometimes postpones doing the dishes until morning when it's his turn to wash up. Ahem.) But then there was a silence as the import of the new push against immigrant Americans sank in. No f*cking anyone is safe here anymore. Even me. My father's people were immigrants, too. Born in England, they settled in Jamestown, VA in around 1620. Which, by long proxy, might make me an illegal.
Anand, I think you said it all. I still can’t get over the powerlessness of leadership to stop him. They have telegraphed that powerlessness by telling citizens that we have to object to all of this. I think there’s a lot of criminals running the world. It seems there’s a lot of “Dem” accomplices.
Melania Trump was given an Einstein (EB-1(a)) visa. This visa is for individuals with extraordinary ability in their field. They can get a green card without getting a job. This new DOJ memo could mean that Melania should be arrested for lying on her application, or to prove how being a lower-tier model is extraordinary, and denaturalized. Of course, the rules don't apply to anyone Trump and Republicans don't want it to apply to.
According to an AP link above, here's one of the *criminals* already removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynjg-EK5U0. No, not a case of denaturalization, but what might succeed a campus organizer who categorically rejects violence and hate in service of views POTUS deems antisemitic? Removing peaceful protesters won't eliminate the views, but may discourage the peacefulness.
The evisceration of 5th & 14th amendment due process & other rights is well underway while SCOTUS elevates the free "speech"/corruption/propaganda of Musk, Big Corps & the wealthiest. The rest of us have our cherished 2nd amendment rights...
Denaturalization is sad...frightening...infuriating...and abominable. If the regime successfully ramps up its use, the effects will echo for generations. I am so so despondent about what our country has become. I can't give in to that despondency, but it makes me weep with weariness.
My son was adopted. He was born in Paraguay, South America. He became a full U.S. citizen when he was 18 months old and has a birth certificate issued by the state of Michigan. He is terrified that he could be picked up by thugs from ICE (or whoever they are) because he is a brown person who fits their profile. He thinks, and I agree, that they wouldn’t care. I fear there is nothing I can do to protect him, as do tens of thousands of other citizens and hard working undocumented Americans. I assume that this ring of evil will eventually reach out its tentacles to everyone.
The horrors of this time in our country’s history are breathtaking and mind numbing. There is a sickness deep in our national psyche that is propelling us toward certain disaster. Any one of us could find ourselves in the crosshairs of this aberrant administration.
Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse has a very good discussion here https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/taking-away-your-citizenship?r=fa5ey&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://americankahani.com/perspectives/mass-deportation-trump-loyalists-plan-denaturalization-of-american-citizens/. I wrote this last year before the election, warning people it was not about "illegals" but about removing brown people, and making them targets of racial profiling and hrassment. Much like Laken Riley.
So Anand, you are saying that all those people in El Salvador at CECOT will never be able to come home even though they are innocent?
If the idiot is going to denaturalize citizens, maybe he should start with his criminal wife.
This is absolutely horrifying. 🇺🇸♥️🥺
My mother was a WW2 war bride from Australia. She was my father’s nurse while he was recuperating from Malaria, contracted in New Guinea. They married here after the war. She was a green card naturalized citizen until she died at age 97. Becoming an American citizen was not in her plan. But she paid her taxes & loved our country and raised me to love my country as she loved hers and America. Now I’m left with trying to understand what Miller’s idea of citizenship really is….
contribution to America really means?
This is beyond disgusting and unacceptable. We are stooping to take AWAY citizenship from those who filed legally or followed laws to obtain it. Perhaps someone should look into how the president's grandfather received (?) citizenship here, because there is QUITE a story with how that man, back in the 1800s, fled Bavaria to come here and avoid a draft. He made money here and went back home to be stripped of HIS actual citizenship there for running away and evading mandated draft duties. I wonder about the details of THAT story to know what happened there. While we are invading everyone else's privacy, should no one be free from scrutiny then, especially at the highest level's where these decisions are being made? Most likely, there is a "there there" with some skeletons hiding in closets.
Ha ha. My husband is a Scot, born in Canada and naturalized at the age of 18. with his Scottish parents, as a US Citizen, in the blue state of New Jersey. "Jokingly" I asked him if he had ever committed a crime that might allow for his deportation, now. He chuckled and admitted to one speeding ticket and a citation for an expired safety inspection sticker. (He never even mentioned the fact that he sometimes postpones doing the dishes until morning when it's his turn to wash up. Ahem.) But then there was a silence as the import of the new push against immigrant Americans sank in. No f*cking anyone is safe here anymore. Even me. My father's people were immigrants, too. Born in England, they settled in Jamestown, VA in around 1620. Which, by long proxy, might make me an illegal.
Anand, I think you said it all. I still can’t get over the powerlessness of leadership to stop him. They have telegraphed that powerlessness by telling citizens that we have to object to all of this. I think there’s a lot of criminals running the world. It seems there’s a lot of “Dem” accomplices.
Melania Trump was given an Einstein (EB-1(a)) visa. This visa is for individuals with extraordinary ability in their field. They can get a green card without getting a job. This new DOJ memo could mean that Melania should be arrested for lying on her application, or to prove how being a lower-tier model is extraordinary, and denaturalized. Of course, the rules don't apply to anyone Trump and Republicans don't want it to apply to.
According to an AP link above, here's one of the *criminals* already removed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iynjg-EK5U0. No, not a case of denaturalization, but what might succeed a campus organizer who categorically rejects violence and hate in service of views POTUS deems antisemitic? Removing peaceful protesters won't eliminate the views, but may discourage the peacefulness.
The evisceration of 5th & 14th amendment due process & other rights is well underway while SCOTUS elevates the free "speech"/corruption/propaganda of Musk, Big Corps & the wealthiest. The rest of us have our cherished 2nd amendment rights...
Sad .. very very sad .. and if anyone of us thinks we are safe .. we need to realize that WE ARE NOT!
Denaturalization is sad...frightening...infuriating...and abominable. If the regime successfully ramps up its use, the effects will echo for generations. I am so so despondent about what our country has become. I can't give in to that despondency, but it makes me weep with weariness.
My son was adopted. He was born in Paraguay, South America. He became a full U.S. citizen when he was 18 months old and has a birth certificate issued by the state of Michigan. He is terrified that he could be picked up by thugs from ICE (or whoever they are) because he is a brown person who fits their profile. He thinks, and I agree, that they wouldn’t care. I fear there is nothing I can do to protect him, as do tens of thousands of other citizens and hard working undocumented Americans. I assume that this ring of evil will eventually reach out its tentacles to everyone.