• socsa@piefed.social
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    13 hours ago

    Although green-card applicants with expired visas can be detained under federal law, previous administrations did not consider them to be in the country unlawfully.

    I have been sounding this alarm for years now. A huge portion of Green card holders and naturalized citizens have technically overstayed a visa while awaiting change of status processing. I don’t know what the exact number is, but I’d wager it’s potentially a significant majority, considering how long the process takes. Previously it has been a long standing policy that you will get amnesty as long as the paperwork is filed in time, but there is not law that requires it.

    If they want, they could use this exact same “loophole” to start mass de-naturalization as well.

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      im betting most of those are republicans, or married to a republican, because Conservatives have to often look to international wives to marry, because americans are up to thier BS, a foreign wife is more ignorant of the current politics in the US and the manchildness of the conservative.

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      13 hours ago

      If they want, they could use this exact same “loophole” to start mass de-naturalization as well.

      It shouldn’t be done, but if we have to kick out Musk and Thiel, you know, just to show how it very terrible it is, I guess we have to do what we have to do.