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permanent resident immigrants are Americans.
by marnett 9y ago
permanent resident immigrants are Americans.
- haydenlee 9y agoIsn't a permanent resident immigrant somebody who has a green card? Surely to be considered American you need to be a citizen, which is separate from a green card. I'm not american so very open to being wrong on this.
- DrScump 9y agoThe title at the top of every "green card" is "Resident Alien".
- DrJokepu 9y agoThis hasn’t been true for a very long time (1997). I-551 Permanent Resident Cards issued since 2010 are labelled as “United States of America / Permanent Resident”, the word “alien” is not present on the document at all.
- DrScump 9y agoSorry. I haven't seen one in years. It had been the case for decades.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> permanent resident immigrants are Americans They're also immigrants. We're debating curbs on immigration. If those curbs continue to be implemented, people like those immigrants will not be future Americans.
- dragonwriter 9y agoLegally, they are not; naturalized citizens are Americans, permanent resident aliens remain aliens. There's certainly an argument to be made that they concept of a “permanent resident alien” is a an elaborate circumlocution for “disenfranchized citizen”, and that permanent residence and citizenship ought to be intrinsically linked (not saying I necessarily agree, but I've certainly seen a reasonable argument made), but there is a difference between ought to be and is.
- yahna 9y agoThat's just a green card. It's far from citizenship.
- DrJokepu 9y agoIn the American immigration system, permantent resident status is the final step before citizenship and permanent residents enjoy almost entirely the same rights as citizens, with a few notable exceptions. They’re absolutely not the same thing but permanent residence is not far from citizenship at all, permanent residents are effectively candidates for citizenship.