He is responding to this: "We used to strip foreign-born anarchists and communists of citizenship and deport them. Laws still on the books. Just planting seeds" As an naturalized citizen I am very familiar with this. There was a section on being a member of the communist party and similar. |
And this is what you find quite reassuring, after knowing who Trump is and what happens under his watch? |
See, people who haven't lived under an authoritarian regime have no clue. They will make it happen. They will make you a communist and kick you out. |
If he was going to do that he would be denaturalizing Elon Musk. This is all just spiking the football. |
"Yes. We started a new denaturalization project under Trump. In 2025, expect it to be turbocharged." Who do you think is being "denaturalized," if not naturalized citizens? The Great Barrier Reef? Holstein cows? |
Absolutely. I lived through some really dangerous times (war) and, having lived in the US for a long time, I realized that a lot of Americans (left and right) are absolutely hysterical when it comes to politics. |
Why? Once again, you don't have to denaturalize or deport "everyone" in order to do it to "some." You're someone who thinks that cops have to pull over everyone with a broken taillight if they pull over a black person or two with one, don't you? Egads. Grow up already. |
Okay. Bold move, Cotton. |
And even people who have read about authoritarian regimes understand how it works. For people catching up, who may now care more than they did a week ago, you can read “on tyranny” by Timothy Snyder. It’s a pretty quick read and will be available at any public library. |
Nobody. On paper (which is the law on the books today as it was 50 years ago) they will denaturalize former members of communist parties who lied about it. In reality, in the next 4 years, there will fewer than 50 people in the USA who are denaturalized and it will be because they broke laws before the got their citizenship, lied on their applications, clerical error and similar. |
"Now" is not when the denaturalization movement has been turbocharged. Now is not the problem, PP. Pay attention. |
Weird that people actually think it would be all 48 million naturalized citizens. That wouldn’t work. Too expensive and too disruptive. The point is to keep people in line knowing that it could happen. |
Interesting. But here’s the thing if you do away with rule of law and an impartial judiciary and allow law enforcement to act with impunity, it really doesn’t matter what’s “on the books”. Being a communist is whatever someone who isn’t loyal is doing. |
So it is really your claim that the DoJ Civil Division’s Denaturalization Section has not denaturalized ANY people who had the status of US naturalized citizens? Is that it? |
That's the whole point of the panopticon. |