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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIsn't this ethnic cleansing?
It sure looks like it to me.
USCIS is Starting a Denaturalization Task Force
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/uscis-starting-denaturalization-task-force/
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)The Dominican Republic. They used to convey citizenship to everyone who was born there. They changed it to anyone who was born there whose parents were there legally. Then they backdated that to 1929. So if your grandparents came illegally, you are illegal too. Now they are rounding up and expelling all the Haitians.
hlthe2b
(102,203 posts)Gawd, is there no hope for this country?
alwaysinasnit
(5,063 posts)It requires the DOJ to commence removal proceedings and requires, in most cases, that the government show evidence of a serious wrongdoing on the part of the citizenship applicant (generally some kind of fraud) to justify the stripping away of status. There could be several areas that the DOJ can look at; the citizenship application process itself, and/or the prior permanent resident application process that underlies the basis for applying for citizenship. The investigations would be very involved and may be hampered by, among other things, age and/or availability of documents, (un)availability of witnesses, etc.
So my sense is that this seems to be red meat for tRump's base and intimidation tactics against immigrant communities.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)radius777
(3,635 posts)let's go back over all the Ellis Island records etc, you'll see that many if not most European immigrants came here with imperfect and sometimes fraudulent paperwork, fabricated identities etc.
... not to mention that the New World was outright stolen from the Native Americans.