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It's exactly the same here in the US. Only a small minority of the states (10) allow illegals to get driver's licenses, for example.
by lnanek2 11y ago
It's exactly the same here in the US. Only a small minority of the states (10) allow illegals to get driver's licenses, for example.
- mc32 11y agoIt's hardly exactly the same. Bidoons are natives of those countries yet are still denied documents. (Illegal/undocumented) immigrants tend to have documentation from their home countries and have citizenship from those countries. They are not lacking in citizenship. And it's not as if Mexico grants 'documents' to illegal immigrants to their country, nor does South Africa, nor does China, nor does... As to the OP's Q: I think it's because conferring citizenship entitles them to benefits the government is reluctant to extend to clans/ethnicities they feel are not loyal to the ruling party.
- akiselev 11y agoI don't think that the Bidoon are confirmed natives of Kuwait, because if they were the designation probably wouldn't exist. The problem is that the state can't confirm, for whatever reason, that they are or are not natives, so they're not willing to take on the liability of granting them a nationality (not just citizenship) due to internal and international politics. Im not sure it's a question of loyalty, but of old world beliefs about original nationality. When someone lacks basic documentation like papers from their country of origin, the immediate assumption is of wrongdoing even when the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the 4,000 affected families.
- jldugger 11y agoI doubt you can trust Wikipedia on a contentious issue like this, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedoon_%28ethnicity%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedoon_%28ethnicity%29, Kuwait appears to treat them as illegal immigrants, and that they're hiding their true nationality.