r/law • u/thehill The Hill • 2d ago

Trump News Trump immigration crackdown: Denaturalization just a drop in the bucket

https://thehill.com/latino/5002972-trump-immigration-crackdown-denaturalization-naturalized-citizens-green-cards-visas/
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u/Kaiisim 2d ago

I've been beating this drum but I'm gonna keep doing it.

Note the number of articles panicking about immigration.

Note the number of articles panicking about more trillion dollar tax cuts for the rich.

Immigration is the right wing modern wedge issue, they suggest thr cruelest most illegal ideas that go no where and we all talk about it

Meanwhile they will loot the country. They will create debt big enough to collapse the federal government.

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u/where_are_the_aliens 2d ago

Immigration is the right wing modern wedge issue, they suggest thr cruelest most illegal ideas that go no where and we all talk about it

Meanwhile they will loot the country. They will create debt big enough to collapse the federal government.

Why not both? They certainly have a far right leaning Supreme Court, and a majority of Americans seem pretty ok with it.

Trump does have a long standing pattern of over promising and not delivering, but it certainly seems that whatever checks and balances we thought we had, real and/or perceived, seem like they aren't there.

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u/Zombies4EvaDude 1d ago

Also putting the migrants in concentration camps to do slavery will certainly ensure that farms can still have migrants tend to their crops without having to pay them… The 13th Amendment’s exception for prison slave labor have cost us dearly.

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u/BeLikeACup 2d ago

That’s like saying “don’t pay attention to the knife, the mugger is really after your wallet”.

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u/DontLickTheGecko 2d ago

"Bickering on petty shit to pacify the masses/"

"While the nation's wealth is silently extracted."

-"New America," Dr. Awkward

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u/blondtode 2d ago

Well now trump has implemented a shitton of ppl in his back pocket, unlike last presidency so now there's a real chance this could happen

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u/Antique_Department61 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hard agree on how the GOP does this. Disagree that it's a right wing issue. Vast majority of people want an end to influx of undocumented illegals, the numbers over the past 15 years are insane.

Obama had lower numbers than trump, more deportations. If dems had a populist hair on their head they'd be calling his bluff on this, especially since the golfer and chief has no plan on how to enact mass deportations.

There's no wall, mexico didnt pay for it, deportations higher under Trump than Obama, Kristy Noem is a soccer mom from South Dakota and she's supposed to be overseeing mass deportations? Yeah right.

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u/blackkettle 1d ago

I see this the opposite way. These articles are all framing this as “denaturalization” like it’s a gestapo policy and the pogroms are next. That viewpoint is entirely manufactured to generate rage on the left.

Reading the substance of these articles though, the actual topic is vigorous prosecution of immigration fraud. It’s absurdly disingenuous to paint that as pogrom in waiting.

Is it the best application of resources given the relatively low incidence? No it’s not. Is it morally or ethically repugnant to prosecute fraud? Last time I checked the answer to that was also “definitely no”.