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> The family fled to America. Mohamud’s father, Osman Mohamud Barre, went first, quitting his engineering professorship at Somali National University. Mohamud s
by scintill76 11y ago
> The family fled to America. Mohamud’s father, Osman Mohamud Barre, went first, quitting his engineering professorship at Somali National University. Mohamud stayed behind, spending a year in a Kenyan refugee camp with his mother, Mariam Hassan.
> The U.S. granted Barre refugee status. He settled in Hillsboro, Oregon, where he worked 13 hours a day at an Intel assembly line. By 1993, he had saved enough money to bring his family to the U.S. “They were malnourished and suffering, but they were happy,” Barre later testified at his son’s trial. “We were grateful to America.”
-- Above quote is from the article
> This teen's family should be stripped of their citizenship and sent back to Somalia. Reason: this kid probably learned at least some of his hatred for the U.S. at the dinner table.
Yeah, and the families of felons should be put in prison too, since the felons probably learned their hatred for society and the law at the dinner table. /sarcasm
- hackaflocka 11y agoIt's kind of like the difference between helping your own family and a stranger. If I take a stranger in, I will throw him/her out if they do unacceptable things. With family, I may not throw them out. Refugees etc. are not born in the U.S. = strangers. U.S. citizens born here = family.
- user_0001 11y agoWhy stop there? Anyone without family dating back say, more than 600 years - back to country to origin?
- scintill76 11y agoSetting aside your opinion on the transitive property of criminality, refugees probably do have some sorts of probationary legal status.. until they become citizens. It is apparently possible to be denaturalized[0], but it's not taken lightly. I guess you could argue for a new half-citizen class for refugees, or that refugees shouldn't be granted citizenship, but those would be too late to affect how this family has a legal right to be treated. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_citizens_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_denaturalized_former_c...
- mikeash 11y agoThat's an argument for deporting non-citizens who commit major crimes. And guess what? That's what we often do! But none of this is an argument for deporting or otherwise punishing the families of non-citizens who commit major crimes. How could you possibly justify that?