r/BlackPeopleTwitter Jul 20 '24

Country Club Thread The party of "fuck you, I got mine"

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u/createayou Jul 20 '24

“We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents.We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.”

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u/Aidian Jul 20 '24

Ah yes. “Anchor babies,” also known as United States citizens.

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u/aenteus Jul 20 '24

So, Baron?

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u/Aidian Jul 20 '24

I don’t think you’re allowed to keep foreign titles. /s

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u/theshortlady Jul 20 '24

Baron's not one of "those" people! /s

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

Trump says he wants birthright citizenship to change. If that happens, new babies born to illegal immigrants won't be citizens.

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u/TheCommonKoala ☑️ Jul 20 '24

Currently, they are American citizens. He is calling for the deportation of natural born Americans.

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u/Rottimer Jul 20 '24

If that happens, new babies born to legal immigrants won’t be citizens.

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u/ChiggaOG Jul 20 '24

Sounds like what Japan has, but getting citizenship in Japan is harder even for someone living over there and working.

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u/Chronis67 Jul 20 '24

And Japan is known for being fairly racist, except a lot of people are pro-Japan so we call it xenophobia instead.

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u/CanuckBacon Jul 20 '24

I think xenophobic is a good word for it since they tend to be bigoted against people from basically all other cultures. Whereas a racist white American likely wouldn't make much distinction between themselves and a white Brit or Canadian,. Bigoted Japanese people will look down on Koreans, Chinese, etc. Hell, they discriminate against ethnic Japanese people that are descendents of those that lived in Brazil. Xenophobic is a more useful word.

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u/InnocentShaitaan 24d ago

They sound rather Desi…

Happy 🧁 day! 🥳

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u/BunnyBellaBang Jul 20 '24

Because American concept of race is stupid. Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese are all classified as Asian, so if they hate each other, it can't be racism. But that makes about as much sense as saying that no one is racist because we are all one human race. Racism from an American view barely works when applied just to the US and falls apart when it is applied globally. We need a better way to describe bigotry in general, but the topic is complex and people want simple labels. So we always end up with simple labels that don't fit some situations and then some people acting like the situations the labels don't fit is not nearly as bad as the situations where the labels do fit.

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u/BigDeckLanm Jul 20 '24

Do redditors only know about Japan and the US? Lmao

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u/ChiggaOG Jul 20 '24

Spending enough time in those spheres makes it easy to pick up. I know less about citizenship in other countries without using Wikipedia as a source or if there is youtube videos about the process.

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u/Aidian Jul 20 '24

If it helps, we can certainly note that Antigua & Barbuda and Tanzania are in the list of unrestricted jus soli countries as well.

Mongolia has a more restricted form with some stipulations,1 along with Australia, Sweden, Thailand, and more.

1 Generally, this looks something like a requirement that one’s parents must have been living within the territory for a given number of years, and/or that one must actively claim it rather than citizenship being conferred automatically.

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u/salgat Jul 20 '24

Unconditional birthright citizenship is actually rare for most countries. In Europe for example, no country offers unconditional birthright citizenship (at least one parent of citizenship is usually needed). I'd be okay with a more nuanced form of citizenship. For example, if you are born in the US and live there at least X years, you gain citizenship automatically, instead of this bullshit where Russian elite fly over, give birth, then fly back to their home country.

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u/gerblnutz Jul 20 '24

I forgot the part where a bunch of illegal immigrants came into America and told the native population where they couldn't live.

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u/salgat Jul 20 '24

https://youtu.be/iVqQosyOpg4?t=60

I always liked this scene that gives perspective on how Native Americans weren't a single homogenous harmonious people (as stereotypes would have it), but rather many separate nations that fought over and conquered territory from each other long before Europeans came.

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u/CanuckBacon Jul 20 '24

Depends entirely on where those countries are. In the Americas birthright citizenship in the norm. Almost every country in the Americas has it. In Eurasia it's the opposite.

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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 Jul 20 '24

Checks Google.

33 countries have unrestricted birth right citizenship

That's not exactly "rare".

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u/salgat Jul 20 '24

Most of those are tiny countries in the Caribbean and central/south America. The only first world countries in that list are the US and Canada. Remember, there are almost 200 countries in the world.

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u/Aidian Jul 20 '24

So 33/195, or just shy of 17% of all countries.

An additional 37 have jus soli with some varying restrictions, putting the wider scope total of soli v sanguinis at more like 36%.

While I wouldn’t argue that it’s necessarily common, it also seems disingenuous to state that something prevalent in virtually the entirety of the North and South American continents is “rare.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

good thing we're not Japan

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u/thebestgesture Jul 20 '24

Most countries don't have birthright citizenship.

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u/Cosmereboy Jul 20 '24

Yes, and while we could (should? I'm not sure) change it, we cannot strip existing citizens of their citizenry. 

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u/UnlikelyHero727 Jul 20 '24

Birthright citizenship is an Americas thing, the rest of the world goes by blood.

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u/stonebraker_ultra Jul 20 '24

What's your point?

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u/UnlikelyHero727 Jul 20 '24

That birthright citizenship is the odd one out, what do you want?

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u/Ucccafelatte Jul 20 '24

Sounds like what most of the world has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

Almost all states in Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania grant nationality at birth based upon the principle of jus sanguinis ("right of blood"), in which nationality is inherited through parents rather than birthplace, or a restricted version of jus soli in which nationality by birthplace is automatic only for the children of certain immigrants.

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u/bit_pusher Jul 20 '24

Trump wants a lot of things, he isn't going to get a constitution amendment ratified by the states ending jus soli.

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

Then they won't have a legal path to deport naturally born citizens. But they will still be able to deport undocumented parents

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u/bit_pusher Jul 20 '24

Well, if its an "official act", SCOTUS just made it to where we can't hold the president criminally liable for deporting naturally born citizens.

Edit: also, undocumented parents with a us born child can still be deported. you cannot sponsor your parents for a green card until you are 21. anchor babies, for the most part, are a myth. they're a strawman.

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u/helel_8 Jul 20 '24

Jesus Christ. Just when I think I can't be shocked by these people

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

That guy sounds crazy. Hopefully, he doesn't become the next AG. Trump has said he wants to change birth right citizenship laws. If he does, what Mike Davis says will be legal.

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u/createayou Jul 20 '24

At this point I don’t even think legal immigrants are safe. Unless they get cops to just detain anyone who looks non white, I don’t see how they’ll have the man power to deport every undocumented immigrant. There’s not enough ICE agents or cops to do the work legitimately, so they’ll just have to round us up.

As a Cuban immigrant who got my citizenship at 15 thanks to my parents taking the test, at this point I’m just gonna get a gun and hope I don’t have to use it. 🤷‍♀️

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u/OneX32 Jul 20 '24

At this point I don’t even think legal immigrants are safe.

The fact that the previous administration stripped kids from their parents and took no care to keep track of them kind of proves that they won't care about checking the legal reasoning behind one's immigrant status before they push you out of the train in the middle of the Sonoran desert.

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u/RedRider1138 Jul 20 '24

That’s so strange to hear from the people so concerned about child trafficking. /s

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u/sh1boleth Jul 20 '24

Fun fact - even legal non citizens like F1 Students, H1B Workers and Green Card Permanent residents can legally buy guns lol.

Source - https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/may-nonimmigrant-alien-who-has-been-admitted-united-states-under-nonimmigrant-visa

Hunting License in a majority of the states is very simple to acquire and the only requirement is residency in said state.

Some FFLs in Rural areas may be unsure of this law and refuse transfers but the ones in suburban and urban areas are aware and do transfers without issues provided all documents are present and legal.

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u/luxii4 Jul 20 '24

You’re right, legal immigrants and people born in America can be deported any time. I saw a documentary called Born in East LA that showed this exact situation.

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u/Capt-Crap1corn Jul 20 '24

What I wonder about are the people that will ratchet up hostility as a way of keeping themselves safe. Kind of like when the harshest critics of Gays were actually Gay themselves but destroying the lives of Gay people. Something like that making everything more worse than we could imagine.

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u/Creamofwheatski Jul 20 '24

Yep, they are going to turn millions of people "illegal" overnight by revoking birthright citzenship and start arresting a deporting folks born in America because their parents are immigrants. Imagine being forcibly deported to a country you have never been to before because your skin is brown. it will be pure chaos if they try this and it will destroy the country. 

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

The would-be law would have to include retroactive language for that to be the case. I doubt they will succeed.

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u/Creamofwheatski Jul 20 '24

Lets hope, this is what they say they want to do, i am hoping they dont get enough power in congress to pull it off but if its an executive order backed by the supreme court all bets are off. We are living in unprecedented times, no one really knows for sure whats going to happen next.

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u/devourer09 Jul 20 '24

You have faith and trust in a right-wing government? You assume they care about the rule of law. I wish I had your naivete.

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

I know that they can be challenged in court if they break the law

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u/devourer09 Jul 20 '24

The same court ruled by the current iteration of SCOTUS? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/rookieoo Jul 20 '24

Yes. The court that forced Idaho to allow abortions for the health of the mother.

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u/jadsonbreezy Jul 20 '24

He can't even count if I read the quote correctly 😭

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u/NJHitmen Jul 20 '24

Look at the shit-eating grin on this motherfucker at the beginning of the video. His clear message here is: “I’m going to deport every brown person I possibly can - including legal immigrants - and I’m going to love every second of it.”

Ugh. Makes me want to vomit. Even more nauseating is the fact that - apparently - millions of voters not only support this kind of policy, but they do so cheerfully.

brb, gotta go throw up in my mouth

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u/GvRiva Jul 20 '24

Gulag, as known as Konzentration camps and you all know what the next step is...

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u/SelfWipingUndies Jul 20 '24

What's the rationale behind this guy being Trump's pick for next attorney general?

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u/LustfulLemur Jul 20 '24

Very clever of you to not say who the quote belonged to in this context, as most would assume it’s a Trump quote given the conversation, but instead it’s just some guy.

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u/Ok-Fly1568 Jul 20 '24

You really watched that video and couldn't tell they were speaking tongue in cheek? Yikes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

Ah yes, it’s all just a big joke. The thousand mass deportation signs were really hilarious. Hahahaha. /s

Yikes at your low awareness and lack of empathy.