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Only if you think it is crazy and cruel to disallow someone from another country to become a legal resident and then eventually a citizen of the US.
by JuniperMesos 11mo ago
Only if you think it is crazy and cruel to disallow someone from another country to become a legal resident and then eventually a citizen of the US.
- kalkin 11mo agoIn many circumstances - including when that person is married to a US citizen, or when they'll likely be killed on return to their country of birth - it is indeed crazy and cruel. (In more ordinary circumstances it's merely arbitrary and unjust.)
- refurb 11mo agoI wanted to be a citizen of Singapore and was never approved. I agree it was arbitrary and unjust. I deserved to be a citizen.
- kalkin 11mo agoYes, this is by no means only a U.S. problem. Some countries are worse, even where birth rate trends seem like they should make it more obviously self-destructive. A tendency towards xenophobia seems to be an unfortunate human universal, although one we can sometimes overcome.
- closeparen 11mo agoYou are demanding that their American spouse either divorce them or spend the rest of their life in another country. Of course it’s crazy and cruel.
- queenkjuul 11mo agoWhen they're married to an American? When they have kids that are American? It's not crazy nor cruel, to you, to separate a mother from her infant?
- LorenPechtel 11mo agoThe issue is spousal visas. I did not seek to marry a foreigner, our relationship was proximity turning into a whole lot more. We consider it cruel to tear apart couples.