[Jedi Master Pikachu]

• Depending on your definition of first world, the UK is not first world.
• People who refer to the UK as the parent country are disgusting. A war was fought from 1776 to 1783 (starting with the Declaration of Independence instead of Lexington/Concord) so that the UK was no longer the parent country. A second war was fought from 1812 to 1815 partially to protect the independence of this nation from the UK.
• The legality should be at issue rather than the economic status of the people.

[RodgerD]

People who refer to the UK as the parent country are disgusting. A war was fought from 1776 to 1783 (starting with the Declaration of Independence instead of Lexington/Concord) so that the UK was no longer the parent country. A second war was fought from 1812 to 1815 partially to protect the independence of this nation from the UK.

So there were wars between England and the USA? Who knew? The things one learns here at FR.

That's what makes it the best forum in the Anglosphere.