Posted on 11/20/2024 1:38:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
For over a month now, my mother has been pestering me about her missing passport. It was in her closet, she said, and suddenly it was gone. It was expired, and renewing would be easier if she had the old one. She had no immediate travel plans, just a vague desire to visit Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised, at some point in the future.
As we often do with our elders, I gently brushed off her increasingly insistent requests for help. She lives in Maryland; I live in New York. It hardly felt urgent. She is forgetful. She misplaces things all the time. It would turn up, I was sure.
When I woke up the morning after Donald Trump had been swept back to the presidency by a slim but decisive margin, I was seized by a sudden, cold panic with the thought ‘Where is Mom’s passport?’ What if Trump’s administration made good on its deportation promises and she suddenly needed to prove that she is, indeed, a naturalized citizen of this country? Did my frail, 73-year-old mother have her papers in order should the knock come on her door?
This feeling caught me completely by surprise, much more so than Trump’s victory, which, after all, was a very likely possibility. I am not given to panic. I think catastrophic thinking is almost always overblown. Panic and alarm: These are feelings that a lifetime of observing the world from a sanguine, journalistic remove, always taking the long view, had taught me to extinguish the moment they flared. What good can come from such strong emotion?
After all, we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Trump was president once before, and even though he managed to enact a great deal of cruelty and bungle a pandemic, most of...
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Attention, Lydia:
Be advised; the reason Democrats are able to make the same promises election-after-election is because they never keep any of them.
Is everyone at the New York Times a bunch of limp wristed pansies?
I LIKE democrat panic, smellz like victory!
slim but decisive margin????
Oh for crying out loud! Pick the most preposterous scenario and hint it might be common practice. 🙄
So what I just read was a lazy coldhearted child unwilling to care for their own mother expecting the government to do it for them.
What a horrible heartless child. Liberals are just bone deep ugly and nasty, selfish jerks, wow.
“She had no immediate travel plans, just a vague desire to visit Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised, at some point in the future.”
Best to forget you ever had a passport than to go to that ‘country’.
slim but decisive margin?
It wasn’t even close.
At least Trump will ask for papers. The FBI never does under Biden when they knock down doors of conservatives.
Why would she “suddenly” have to prove her citizenship? Doesn’t she have some other documentation available? Trump never once said he would deport U.S. citizens. What a jackass. That’s a terrible strawman.
What a stupid article. From what I was able to read of it author is ignorant.
A person receives a Certificate of Naturalization which is recorded in many different ways when they become a citizen, and they don’t even receive a passport unless they want one.
May you choke on your panic.
gee, I’m also naturalized and as well as my US passport I also have my naturalization document which is also on file with USCIS(or whatever it’s called now). Funnily I had no such qualms about being deported
I think she panics as soon as she wakes up in the morning every day.
Liberal insanity is a constant state of crisis and panic.
She’s a liberal dipshit.
Lots of drama there.
LOL!
See, my wife is a naturalized citizen.
Her proof is her certificate of naturalization & issued social security card.
In a pinch both could be verified & replaced.
Her passport is blue, as well as are her expired ones that she kept.
What a bunch of histrionic fearmongering.
They all do it, Oprah says we'll never vote again, sheesh.
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