Trump and his criminal associates seem determined to make the United States a “Shithole Country.”
MAGA my ass!
First they came for the citizens…
Ya know, I hear Obama had a fake birth certificate too.
Let me guess: how many similar requests are made of individuals who are not from Mexico or other places in Latin America? I estimate none.
I doubt I could find similar information surrounding my birth. How many of us could?
Miller’s degenerate, sulphurous stench is all over this latest outrage.
I’m sure they’ll quickly move to summarily gassing anyone darker than a manila folder. Not people, after all.
Unbelievable.
Oh, if only it were.
We’re about to find out.
A number of years ago (I think shortly after the 2012 election) the anti-immigration crowd, were pushing an idea strongly enough that for a moment it broke into the mainstream media. The idea was revoking citizenship if one couldn’t definitively prove parents, or even grandparents citizenship.
When I stopped to think about the lunacy of such an approach - I thought to my own grandparents and great grandparents. And then wonder how much of the country could be “forced deported” because of lack of historic documentations. It was an absurd mental exercise. But I remember doing it - along the lines of “This is so frickin’ absurd - have the people pushing this even really thought through what such policies would entail?”
For example: Two of my grandparents came to the US around 1920. The fiance (later husband) was getting a degree at MIT. Did he get a special visa (I have no idea what policies were at the time) for students that he over stayed? Who knows? The only definitive “proof” I would have that he was - at least while he was at MIT in school there is a single picture/name in a yearbook. It is even murkier when looking at my father’s parents who I believe were both born here to immigrant parents.
Now - at least in the Trump era - I am not worried. My grandparents who immigrated were from Norway (aka “Normay” to Trump.) And the Great Grandparents were from Germany and Ireland before the turn of the century. That is - to the lily white supremacy crowd I guess I am “safe.”
That said - I never thought I would see where this fringe and draconian idea would become US policy. At least when targeting a population of color. And placing 100% of the burden of proof/suspicion on the individuals not on the state.
Nauseating.
“MAGA my ass.”
Yup. This is particularly galling when veterans (You know, those who actually served instead of dodging) are caught up in this latest Trumpian abomination.
“The Trump administration has increasingly questioned the citizenship of Americans with United States birth certificates, revoking or denying passports to ‘hundreds, and possibly thousands’ of people and placing some in deportation proceedings…”
I forget, do they deport you if you’re only one-sixteenth non-WASP?
Or does even a single drop of degenerate blood get you kicked out?
Asking for a friend.
New signs going up at various border crossings.
The “One Drop Rule” is their fever dream. Their new slogan: “If you ain’t all white, you ain’t alright.”
The Fourth Reich is upon us, with Herr Miller leading the putsch…
I think you misspelled “putz”.
How about askhoul?
Funny you should say this, I was going through my mother’s paperwork and found the canceled checks from the hospital and the OB/GYN for my birth. I guess since I was born in St. Louis City and have a Germanic last name I shouldn’t have to worry, but I’ll hang onto these just in case. It’s good to be born into a family of packrats.
We need to demand the same paperwork required of these “fraudulent” citizens from the frauds running this administration.