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The poor logic is your unfounded assumption that naturalized citizens are somehow more prone to this type of crime than citizens by birth. If you want to asser
by ubernostrum 9y ago
The poor logic is your unfounded assumption that naturalized citizens are somehow more prone to this type of crime than citizens by birth.
If you want to assert that, you'll need to back it up with evidence. Until you do, there's no reason to assume it -- if anything, one could flip your logic around and claim that birth citizenship should correlate with higher risk since a born citizen didn't have to do anything to "earn" it and so doesn't value their citizenship/country as much as someone who had to put in significant effort and jump through a lot of hoops to get naturalized.
- shard 9y agoThis is similar to the situation where some people notices that born again Christians are more religious than people who've been Christians their whole lives. And this makes sense on some level, to have to actively seek out membership (religious or national) implies a greater degree of effort or commitment than someone who has never known non-membership.
- WillyOnWheels 9y agoNew converts to a religion are always the most zealous.
- slowmotiony 9y agoIs there really no reason for you to assume a naturalized citizen might possibly have loyalty to his former country? Really, you can't see any reason at all? Nothing?
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- pcwalton 9y agoThis argument is pretty much the dictionary definition of prejudice.
- brucephillips 9y ago"preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience." No, it's not.
- frabbit 9y agoMy predjudice would be that naturalized citizens actually tend to being more jingoistic and loyal in order to prove that they really do belong.
- cs02rm0 9y agoFor one, you're not considering malicious actors not acting independently. It's not easier to get an nth generation citizen than a naturalised one to apply for a CIA role. There is a way of limiting the severity of such a situation though; just caveat the clearance so the bearer is restricted from accessing any information relating to their country of origin (or any other countries they or close relatives have a potential conflict with). It seems surprising that wasn't done here, regardless of his original intent.
- ivanhoe 9y agoPlus naturalized citizens need to pass a lot more screening, from getting the visa to enter the country in the first place, and on each next step afterwards - they are under the constant surveillance for years even before they apply for the job that requires any security clearances.