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minoanmissGOP senator: 'I believe we ought to do away with birthright citizenship'
My parents were legal immigrants when I was born. (They got their citizenships when I was 11 -- one actual pleasant childhood memory involves helping them study for the test at the same time as I was learning the civics that was on the test). This dude would disqualify me.
This fucking country.
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Date: 2024-10-25 02:32 pm (UTC)I mean, it's obviously not just him, and the idea is both outrageous and pernicious among the right, and not something we as a country can countenance. But I still Do Not Like him.
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Date: 2024-10-25 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-25 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-25 06:28 pm (UTC)Unless there's a 6-3 Supreme Court decision saying "Wong Kim Ark was incorrectly decided just like Roe and Chevron were and 'subject to the jurisdiction' really means 'are white citizens', so sad, goodbye". Which I would not put past this court.
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Date: 2024-10-25 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-25 04:35 pm (UTC)Of whom Senator Ron Johnson is one.
I wonder whether he's troubled that no "founding father" was born a citizenen of the U.S., nor were any of their parents.
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Date: 2024-10-25 07:31 pm (UTC)We can start by deporting him.
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Date: 2024-10-25 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-26 11:40 am (UTC)We don't have birthright citizenship in the UK (lost in the early 80s) and it's revolting.
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Date: 2024-10-26 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-31 02:18 pm (UTC)Also, these true believer racist stereotypes think that the kitchen and household should be run by the barefoot and pregnant little missus. Why do they need servants when what that want are, basically, slaves?
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Date: 2024-10-31 02:22 pm (UTC)