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So all I have to do is show up in a country and just say "I'm a citizen" and if they can't disprove that claim then I get to stay? Because that's essentially w

• mikeash 10y ago
  Well no, you're the one who said it's impossible to prove lack of citizenship, not me. I'm guessing that ICE is generally able to demonstrate, beyond a reasonable doubt, that most illegal immigrants are not citizens. Most can be fairly easily proven not to have had US citizenship from birth (due to being born outside the US to non-American parents), and there is a central database of naturalized citizens, so if they are also absent from that, done. What I'm saying here is simply that if it is indeed impossible to prove, as you say, that is not a good reason to relax standards of proof.