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The legal argument is "yes they do", but the first few pages of the document are "but we understand why US citizens might assume the opposite because here's a l
by Sir_Substance 9y ago
The legal argument is "yes they do", but the first few pages of the document are "but we understand why US citizens might assume the opposite because here's a laundry list of all the times we ignored that in the past".
As a non-citizen, the internal arguments of the US legal system aren't very interesting to me, but the historical record of how the US treats non-citizens is. The US has clearly demonstrated that in practice, non-citizens are not protected by the same rights.