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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Your days of relevance are now over, Lydia. America has rejected all the sick, anti-human, destructive, degenerate, evil sh*t you and your ilk have been ramming down our throats for decades. Bye.
I think that some people expect Trump to scoop up all of the African Americans, put them in chains, and send them out into the fields to pick cotton.
This is what the media has done to our country.
Well, sorry pal, Mom’s gettin’ tossed in the wood chipper.
Something tells me she blamed W for her cancer 20 years ago.
Indeed.
In fact, my naturalized citizen wife would have a far easier time establishing her citizenship bona fides than I could as a natural born citizen.
Oddly I wasn’t moved by her hysterical screed.
Permanently panicked dingbat.
She should be asked when the midterms roll around how any election is even possible given her public statement.
That's what naturalization papers are for.
Here you go, Lydia. If mommy dearest has misplaced her naturalization papers you can send off to the Customs and Immigration Service for a replacement. Being as she is a LEGAL immigrant and naturalized CITIZEN, CIS will be glad to help.
Now kwitcherbitchin, Sweetie.
If you’re somehow unable to escape the country I guess suicide is your only other option.
Yes, they are.
Is everyone at the New York Times a bunch of limp wristed pansies?
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That propaganda paper is filled with Marxist-Democrat ideologues who despise middle-class America and yearn to transform our country into a vassal state of the Globalist order. Anyone who reads it should have their head examined!
Eons ago, for employment related purposes, I needed to prove my American citizenship. So I sent off to the relevant bureaucracy in the State where I was born, and they promptly sent back a brand new properly filled, stamped, signed, and sealed "Certificate of Live Birth" with my name and vital statistics on it. It's not hard to do.
Unless your name is Barack Hussein Soetoro Odinga Whatever Obama.
In order to arrest an alien or citizen for that matter the agent/officer must have probable cause that the individual broke a law.
If you are a US citizen you don't have to prove anything. The government has the burden to prove you are in violation of law. If you are a legal resident or non-immigrant then you are required to carry proof of your legal status at all times. Failure to carry your docs as an alien will result in a short detention while the agent runs a background check to verify your claim. US citizens have no such obligation.
No one can be forcibly removed from this country without probable cause and due process. No one.
Sounds like Lydia shat her adult diaper.
As would this reporterette’s mother.
Her “papers” are a stamp away [assuming this reporterette’s claims are true, which I seriously doubt.]
Oh no, I don’t have a passport, never have. Does that mean Trump will be knocking on my door to deport me?
Thank-you NY Slimes for the alert.
Maybe a trip back to Ethiopa might help her appreciate what she actually has here in the USA.
See my #30 ... Mommy Dearest is naturalized; USCIS can easily send her replacement naturalization papers.
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