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      My dirt farmer ancestors got here in like 1890, too late to fight against the Yahnkeez, just in time to steal land from the Indians.

      So I guess I’m either Scottish or stateless now. I’m not sure which is worse. (Just kidding, Scots)

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    Fucking fascists. We should still be accepting immigrants through Ellis Island (in my humble opinion)

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    @xylol Is one of those who brought it up.

    One of the steps that will lead to mass corporate slavery.

    “Former” Americans will be bought and sold, or “disposed of”, to pay off their “debt” for being allowed to stay on American soil.

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    To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are “unlawfully present” will “no longer be U.S. citizens at birth.” They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives. There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.

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      Will anything cause a revolution?

      From an outside-the-US perspective, it feels as though every incremental assault the USA’s constitution is met with a bit of tut-tutting and complaining about why elected members don’t fix things, then back to apathy 48 hours later.