Columbia student detained while attending naturalization ceremony, lawyer says
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mohsen-mahdawi-columbia-detained-naturalization-rcna201214
How long do you think it will take before they try to strip Puerto Ricans born in the archipelago of birthright #citizenship? #puertorico
The crucial point here is that the #Trump administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens—after all, if deporting someone under a protective order to a Gulag without so much as a hearing is a “foreign policy” matter with which no court may interfere, then the #citizenship of the condemned person doesn’t matter.
This is the actual stripping away of rights. Why aren't #republicans up in arms? This stance goes directly against republican values - and I mean ACTUAL republican values.
To take away #citizenship for any reason is in effect #authoritarian, because it gives a power no politician should have.
#Trump Officials Are Gaming Out How to Ship Citizens to #ElSalvador
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-el-salvador-us-citizens-denaturalization-1235315975/
As Hungary votes on amendment to ban LGBTQ+ Pride, what does it mean for other basic rights? | News https://www.byteseu.com/918575/ #budapest #Children #citizenship #constitution #Fidesz #FundamentalRights #FundamentalRightsInIndia #Government #GovernmentAndPersonhood #HumanRights #Hungary #IssuesInEthics #justice #LAW #LGBTQCommunity #LGBTQ+ #MinorityGroup #PoliticalScience #Politics #Rights #SocialEthics #SocialIssues #universalism #ViktorOrbán #VladimirPutin
Why isn't anyone bringing up the fact that four of the US President's five children have citizenship through birthright citizenship? Seems to be low hanging fruit. #immigration #citizenship
When I was growing up I remember assuming anyone vocally or visibly devout in their #faith was a good person, as well as an upstanding & giving member of their community.
The last decade has made it clear the opposite is closer to the truth, and that those most adamant or even strident in their public expressions of faith are almost always the worst among us.
...and it is exactly these people the global fascist movement seeks to embolden & empower.
The European country ‘that doesn’t exist’ – and only gets 500 tourists a year | World | News https://www.byteseu.com/913566/ #citizenship #DeFacto #DrewB #Europe #flag #FrozenConflictZone #MilitaryConflict #Moldova #NonRecognisedState #PridnestrovianMoldavianRepublic #SemiPresidentialRepublic #SovietUnion #Tiraspol #Transnistria #Ukraine #UnitedNations #YouTube
Important thread about the social security administration (SSA), deportations, and threats to naturalized US citizens, visa holders, and undocumented immigrants.
https://bsky.app/profile/altssa.altgov.info/post/3lmkrnpxen222
From https://bsky.app/profile/altssa.altgov.info on BlueSky.
@w7voa where are thou America? Department of Homeland Security announced Feb. 25 it was mandating that all people in the United States illegally register with the federal government, and said those who didn’t self-report could face fines or prosecution. Failure to register is considered a crime, and people will be required to carry registration documents with them or risk prison time and fines. Registration will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older without legal status. #citizenship #freedom
Saint Kitts & #Nevis has stripped #citizenship from 13 investors and their dependents, permanently #blacklisted two marketing firms, and canceled its agreement with MSR Media. https://www.imidaily.com/caribbean/st-kitts-revokes-13-citizenships-blacklists-2-well-known-marketing-agents/
Helen Bobat, Canadian Permanent Resident for 25 years, is stranded in the United Kingdom 
after her PR card was stolen.
Spoiler alert: Get your citizenship as soon as you’re eligible.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-permanent-resident-stranded-abroad-after-id-stolen-1.7504934
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Helen Bobat, une résidente permanente canadienne pendant 25 ans, est coincée au Royaume-Uni après que sa carte de RP a été volée.
Divulgâcheur: Obtenez votre citoyenneté dès que vous devenez éligible.
// Article en anglais //
#TuesdayColumn: It is easy to sneer at a neo-#fascist #Italy restricting #citizenship rights as just another #populist encroachment. Then again, legitimate citizenry is an important fundament to any #democracy... #poltiics #writing
Gate-Keeping Citizenship:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/citizenship-gate-keeping/
For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,
most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.
One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.
Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.
If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.
Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.
To justify these measures, the executive order purports to combat large-scale voter fraud: 
the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.
(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most
-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)
The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.
If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.
Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.
Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;
the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.
(As NPR reported, researchers have found that 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)
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There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.
“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.
Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”
#WhatsMissing: The "#AntiThiel - #Grant":
Pays #StudentDebt, back-owed #taxes and #RenounciationFee for anyone fleeing the #USA and migrating overseas, regardless if seeking #Asylum, #Naturalization or whatever.
Only condition is the people renounce their #US citizenship either instantly or as soon as they have attained another #citizenship (as #statelessness is a problem for the #stateless!)…
Sadly I'm not a #billionaire, cuz otherwise I would've done so and hired people to be able to do so.
President Trump showed journalists a gold card that allows obtaining U.S. citizenship: "For 5 million dollars, it can be yours."
Italy toughens citizenship laws – how will this impact Jews? https://www.byteseu.com/?p=890694 #citizenship #Europe #EuropeanJews #Holocaust #Italy
→ Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling
https://truthout.org/articles/indigenous-nations-mobilize-against-ice-targeting-and-profiling/
“We should not have to prove our citizenship, […] We are the original people in this country, but we’re in a #scary time right now, and I don’t want any #American #Indian to get lost in the #system. [ICE] ‘lost’ children the last time they did this. They lost little brown children that will never be reunited with their parents. And that is horrible. […]”
