From 22 Chinese women detained in 1874 for being ‘lewd and debauched’, experts point to a grim US tradition
One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women – led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela – sued over the president’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, out of fear that their unborn children would be left stateless.
The case went before the supreme court, which sided with the Trump administration Friday by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order.
The legal drama recalls a scene a century and a half earlier, when a different cohort of immigrant women went to the country’s highest court to challenge a restrictive California law. In 1874, San Francisco officials detained 22 Chinese women at the port after declaring them “lewd and debauched” – a condition that allowed for denial of entry.
what happens when one parent is an immigrant and the other is nth generation? asking for millions of people
My wife is a Canadian whith a resident alien status here. My heritage has been in the US for generations The first one that tries to take my wife, is the messenger . What that message is depends on how badly they want to be walking to deliver it
They may get me, but they will not get her.
That one’s easy
They’re coming for everyone who they seem an “undesirable”. That’s anyone the Nazis would’ve killed. It’s only a matter of when
I left earlier this year because I know I’m going to be next. I honestly kinda hope they do denaturalize me because then I don’t have to pay US taxes. I have nothing to gain from the US at this point.
You can voluntarily renounce your citizenship at an embassy, if you weren’t aware of the option. I wouldn’t do it without citizenship somewhere else, because being stateless isn’t great.
Congrats on getting out, either way!
Not if you’re a US citizen AFAIK. You have to go through a whole process and pay thousands of dollars to remove your US citizenship because they still want to collect all that tax money from expats living abroad who use no US services.
But who can still vote. Just only for president.
Depends how much melanin is involved
