• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
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    23 days ago

    As a Canadian citizen, he couldn’t vote for president, but he supported Donald Trump.

    “I was definitely all for ‘Make America Great Again,’ and having a strong, unified country, and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently,” he said. “I’ve been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.”

    And here I was afraid there was no justice left in the world. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      no no sir, those are not your American children. those are you illegal children whom will be deported soon.

      thanks dismantling of birthright citizenship!

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        23 days ago

        I still haven’t wrapped my head around this one. Wasn’t birthright enshrined in the constitution? How can it be dismantled?

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          23 days ago

          So is the separation of church and state.
          And the right against unreasonable search and seizures.

          But it turns out writing it down doesn’t make it so. It’s not a fundamental law of the universe. It has to actually be upheld and defended for it to do anything. Until the American people do something they’ll just keep walking all over it.

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            23 days ago

            The difference is that citizenship is about papers. It’s a law about law. So how are they circumventing it to pull citizenship from people? Operationally, how is it done.

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              22 days ago

              If you show the person at the border your paper, and they still won’t let you in, it doesn’t matter that you have the paper. It is just that simple. It’s illegal, but when the people who are supposed to be enforcing the laws are the ones breaking them, there isn’t any real recourse short of a popular uprising.