• acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    12 days ago

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

    • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      Because they do what ever they want… it takes years to appeal a single case so they are just steamrolling hundreds and hundreds….

      (And the Supreme Court simply takes a red pen to change whatever they want… )

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        12 days ago

        Again, how? You can’t take someone’s citizenship away if not through court, right? What excuses are judges using to do that?

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          12 days ago

          That’s the neat part… ICE doesn’t even have to go through a judge to deport someone. They can just kinda do it… and it’s been an issue for YEARS. Only now they were allowed to go into overdrive, completely unchecked.

          https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-deport-us-citizens/

          So they don’t have to strip citizenship, they just send people to other countries and move on with their day. Then the courts are so swamped with appeals that it’s likely most will just give up and make a new life in the other country.

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          9 days ago

          Say they’re a danger to the the nation,.deport them to Somalia etal. Don’t need.due.process any more.

    • arcterus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      12 days ago

      They have some nutty interpretation that when the amendment was written the writers didn’t mean for it to apply to everyone. Basically it’s something like the children of noncitizens owe allegiance to the country of their parents, so they don’t count. The bit they’re trying to use is what prevents e.g. children of diplomats from gaining citizenship.