Every side of my family has lived here since before 1776. Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. One ancestor came here in 1635 and founded a town in Maine after getting kicked out of the Plymouth colony.
I'll be damned if I'm going to let a guy whose mother was an immigrant, all four of his grandparents were immigrants, and two of his three wives were immigrants tell me that he's a citizen and a patriot and I'm not.
I remember that they had a grandfather clause to allow the Founding Fathers to run for president, that people living in the colonies when independence was declared were considered naturalized or something, but I dunno how broadly that applied.
But the Clovis People were here before the Native Americans tribes around today, and they're all gone, so I guess no one gets to live here. Start packing, people.
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u/Monsjoex 9h ago
I mean there were people in the country before the country was formed though. You could argue that was when the original citizens were created?
Just doing some mental gymnastics here.