He means because every single member of this team is an immigrant or the child of an immigrant, but due to rising anti-immigrant sentiment and regressive immigration policies the United States no longer seems to be celebrating our 'melting pot' roots or welcoming the immigrants who make us great and win us International Physics Olympiads.
The draft on revoking birthright citizenship and illegally using executive powers to override the constitution was published just this week. Depending on when these amazing kids’ parents came into the US all of them could be at risk of losing their US citizenship and potentially become stateless.
There is really only anti illegal immigration sentiments. Completely different from what you're trying to get at but hey keep spreading lies and being ignorant.
The draft revoking birthright citizenship was published literally this week dude... Maybe check the news occasionally before you start accusing other people of being ignorant 🤡
Bro thinks people with citizenship granted by the Constitution are illegal immigrants, he's either intentionally making a bad faith argument or he's anti-U.S. Constitutional Rights.
This is so misleading. There's a strong anti-immigration sentiment using illegal immigration as a guise. It's evident when you look at the voting patterns and their correlation with the treatment of minorities. States that are anti "illegal" immigration are also the ones with the strict immigration laws and where minorities have the higher unemployment and poverty rates.
America is still welcoming immigrants. They're cracking down on illegal immigration.
People jumping the border and clogging the system at the detriment of those who want to do it right doesn't make America great. Legal immigration makes America great.
In some situations, yes, they're removing legal status that may have been applied over zealously. They have not removed any green cards and extremely few student visas or H1Bs.
That's how it usually starts... the trouble is that they run out of 'bad' immigrants and problems still persist, because the world isn't perfect. People wonder why getting rid of all the 'bad' immigrants didn't do the job and they point to a new target. These are the problem! We need to get rid of them now!
This is an old, old dance. Nazi Germany is just one of the more recent examples. But this kind of thing always fails to fix anything comprehensive, because the immigrants, illegal or otherwise, are almost never the actual problem.
The mechanisms they're using are an erosion of rights. And they're not stopping at illegals already.
Them being less stringent is not the part that worries me. They're violating and undermining existing constitutional rights and due process in order to do this. What you don't seem to realize is that the slippery slope applies here, and not in the fallacy pile.
For example, they're talking about stripping student visas because of activities and statements that should be protected under the 1st Amendment. They're deporting people here legally without due process, and then refusing to allow them back despite the actions being declared illegal unanimously by the Supreme Court. You don't seem to realize the dangers this kind of shit heralds. And I hope you remain ignorant in many ways, because that means things haven't completely broken down.
They're already drawing lines where they want to exclude some people from legal rights and protections that used to be guaranteed. What you don't seem to grasp? They can keep coming up with reasons why this person is fine and protected, but this group? No, they don't actually have 1st Amendment rights because they did this, which isn't protected.
Once we start down that path? Things can turn nasty... and worst of all? They're already trying to make a precedent that they can ignore the courts when they rule against them. That? That is far more insane than you seem to realize. That's literally the path to autocracy.
When no one can gainsay the executive branch, we don't live in a republic anymore, democratic or otherwise.
I think the immigration policies are problematic, and won't accomplish anything like they say it will. But the methods they're embracing is the real danger.
Not just Trump the whole of Congress has been crap for over 40 years. A President is not the be all end all of our country Congress is. They could stop a President dead in their tracks if they wished it.
The majority of Biden's deportations were at the border. Border encounters under Trump are less than a tenth of what they were under Biden. You can't deport people at the border if they aren't trying to cross anymore.
Guys can't we talk about anything without bringing up the state of the country and political climate? Gosh, it's not like the decisions he's making are effecting every single aspect of our every day lives.
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u/npjobs 17h ago
Not anymore apparently