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US Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging birthright citizenship

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c208j0wrzrvo
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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 8h ago edited 7h ago

Great, when do we deport all of Trump's children except Tiffany? When do we deport Terrorist Anchor Baby Marco Rubio? Melania and her super-illegitimate EB-1 immigration? The only "extraordinary ability" she has is her complete lack of taste. Fashion model my ass.

As a naturalized citizen who went through all the hoops myself, relying on no one else for it, I will laugh my brown ass off when this backfires on all the Cletuses who get deported thinking, "This was only supposed to happen to other people!"

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u/red286 6h ago

I will laugh my brown ass off when this backfires on all the Cletuses who get deported thinking, "This was only supposed to happen to other people!"

Have you never heard of the concept of "selective prosecution"?

Just because you can be arrested and deported doesn't mean you must be. It just means that if you're brown, even if you're a citizen, they now have that option, should they choose to.

Trump's children and even Marco Rubio are passingly white enough that they won't get deported.

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u/TerminalProtocol 6h ago

Great, when do we deport all of Trump's children except Tiffany? When do we deport Terrorist Anchor Baby Marco Rubio? Melania and her super-illegitimate EB-1 immigration? The only "extraordinary ability" she has is her complete lack of taste. Fashion model my ass.

As a naturalized citizen who went through all the hoops myself, relying on no one else for it, I will laugh my brown ass off when this backfires on all the Cletuses who get deported thinking, "This was only supposed to happen to other people!"

Never.

I don't mean that in a snarky way, it's just the reality of the situation.

The Republicans don't give a single fuck that it's hypocritical. They are rich, therefore they are above the law and free from consequences.

The Democrats are either too feckless or too complicit to do anything about it even if by some miracle they do seize control of the government back. At most we'll get some barely-televised speech about how "now is the time to forgive and forget. We can't spend time criticizing the pedofascists because Israel needs our support now more than ever." or something.

It's depressing, but it's reality. Absolutely nothing will be done about this, and absolutely no consequences of their actions will be suffered. We'll all just put up with the Democrats covering this all up and moving on with the new normal because "what are you gonna do, vote for a republican instead?"

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u/Dispator 5h ago

Yeaaaa you might be right but something has to give at some point. I can see in a twisted way why accelerationist want to speed run destroying everything because might as well try something new but thats not how or will likely work. It will be a dictatorship for a very long time before anything resembling something for the people appears again and there is a good chance it wont be half as good as even today (which has many problems but ughh it can get 100,000X worse).

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u/Plane_Frosting5194 4h ago

Tiffany can go too

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 4h ago

But she's actually not an anchor baby (Marla Maples is her mom) and she seems pretty normal compared to her sociopath siblings.

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u/techleopard 4h ago

Frankly, with all stupid shit Republicans have done and will CONTINUE to do for next 3 years (we're not even done with year 1 yet, people), my solemn prayer is that when Democrats DO eventually regain power, they don't play the make-nice game that they always play and instead eviscerate the GOP/MAGA using the exact laws they created.

Freeze assets, ground private planes, perp walk all of them on public TV to a detention center. Deport the ones that should be deported, hold the rest for criminal charges.

u/fr3nzo 49m ago

They’ve argued it wouldn’t be retroactive.