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I was unclear about what I meant by "increasingly common," but I did not mean "during the Trump administration." It has certainly been happening well before the
by geofft 7y ago
I was unclear about what I meant by "increasingly common," but I did not mean "during the Trump administration." It has certainly been happening well before then, too.
And multiple presidential administrations ignoring the rights of citizens absolutely doesn't make it magically okay. I have my problems with Trump, but that doesn't imply that I think everything Obama and Bush did was good and just.
(In any case, even one US citizen unlawfully detained, let alone deported, seriously concerns me as a citizen. Either the rights of citizenship are guaranteed, or they're not. They can't be mostly guaranteed.)
- zaroth 7y agoThe issue of verifying citizenship is as old as the existence of citizenship in the first place. While there’s no doubt these stories are magnified more than ever, I’m wondering if there’s any reason to believe this is actually an issue that is statistically becoming more common over the last 4-, 8-, 12- years, or if in fact, many of these practices are actually becoming less common but they are also becoming more widely discussed? Two unaccompanied kids walk across the border near Tijuana carrying US passports, one with a picture from many years before which makes her hard to identify and are detained. The brother signs papers (under duress) “admitting” the sister is actually his cousin and not a citizen. The girl is held for 36 hours before being released. A bad situation all around. Is it more common, or do we just hear about it now?