The Trump Presidency 2.0

I'm all for restricting birthright citizenship, it's abused in Canada as well.

While the U.S. and Canada are the only two NATO countries with birthright citizenship. twelve others have restricted policies: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The other 18 countries have no such policy at all: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.

Similar trends extend further east, with some countries offering restricted birthright citizenship and others lacking it altogether. Ukraine and Israel both have restricted birthright citizenship, as do Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Pakistan and India.
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Restricted birthright citizenship exists in some countries in the Indo-Pacific region — including Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Taiwan and Cambodia – but is lacking in other countries in the region.

China and Russia — two of the top U.S. adversaries — lack such a policy.
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https://thehill.com/policy/international/5030514-trump-end-birthright-citizenship/
 
Marauder06 said:
I think it’s kind of crappy they they lit “not properly securing the border“ on her, I mean, what was she supposed to do?
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I'm not sure what the problem is but find it hard to understand recruiting problems for the Coast Guard. Apparently they are short of personnel too. I'd think it would be a pretty cool job and no shortage of people interested in doing it.
 
DA SWO said:
Birthright citizenship is going to be interesting.
Read the initial arguments for and against.
Then see if you find the case (Chinese guy whose name I don't remember V The U.S. Government). That case established the born in the US = citizen president.
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Wong Kim. Born to legally-here Chinese immigrants in America, this precedence was widely (and in my opinion) broadly applied to illegal immigrants in practice.
 
Word from our leadership via email is the DoD is exempt from the hiring freeze and we're waiting on the wordsmiths to finalize the memorandum.
 
Topkick said:
I'm not sure what the problem is but find it hard to understand recruiting problems for the Coast Guard. Apparently they are short of personnel too. I'd think it would be a pretty cool job and no shortage of people interested in doing it.
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USCG is always short of personnel. They have no budget and no respect. What they did have was pissed away by Admiral Papp. During the cuts from 2013 the Coast Guard’s acquisition budget for FY ’14 was about $900 million versus around $1.5 billion in FY ’13. Add the personnel cuts, the operational mission cuts, the insane level of risk aversion, and the fact that it is a serious mind fuck at boot.

Coast Guard cutbacks will cost 1,000 jobs
 
Devildoc said:
This has always been perplexing to me. I know 2 people with US-Israeli citizenship, both left the US in October to go back in the Israeli military. Makes no sense.
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Did they have to do their conscription service, or lose their Israeli citizenship?

All of the US hostages in Gaza were Israelis who lived in Israel and had US citizenship. It irritated me when the media would harp on the US hostages in Gaza.
 
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I tell ya, I'm really confused by posts like this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1882496900223377719

Are you telling me Leon Panetta was a man of character? Because he was a scum bag. Robert Gates may have been a man of "character" but he's a Republican that Democrats like to trot out as their sign of bipartisanship.

Ash Carter? Technocrat liberal idiot. La Lloyd? Horrible.
 
Found a fascinating quote on naturalized citizenship today.

"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons." Jacob B. Howard, 1866. Bolded is mine for emphasis.

The quote is from Jacob B. Howard- the principal draftsman of the 14th. The intent, stated clearly- is that illegal immigrants (aliens) are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States and are not entitled to birthright citizenship.

Sen. Howard died 5 years after this quote, but he made the intent of the 14th very clear- if you're a foreigner or an alien, you're not entitled to birthright citizenship. In the 138 years since, this has somehow twisted into "if you cross the border and have a child then poof! You're an American."

ETA- forgot the sawce
 
So Mitch Mcconnell voted no on Hegseth. It's not about what's best for the country. It's all about getting even with Trump. Looking like JD will have to break the tie.
 
Isn't McConnell the turd who basically had a stroke or two in press conferences? The guy is arguably more far gone than Biden, just standing there, lights on but nobody's home. His office probably has one of those vacuums dentists use so his staff can evac the drool pooling in his mouth. The guy I'm thinking of could eat chilled Elmer's glue if you told him it was vanilla pudding because his brain is little more than a bucket of wet sand and random beach detritus.

ETA: Yeah, that's the same guy. Dude has a smile like the puppet thing in the Saw series or maybe Venom or some Tim Burton cartoon character. Running around DC looking like Jack Skellington's older brother. That dude's mouth is straight out of a Japanese horror film.
 
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