This is just wrong. He entered the country legally. The Adoption Citizenship Act seems like the right way to handle this.
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#12Americans killed all the natives, then they killed all the Mexicans in California (ok "expulsed" some). And now everyone must believe they are the good ones and kicking Latinos is the right thing. You know what, fuck you, prove you are different than ISIS, prove you are rightfully the world police .
The majority of (living) Americans had nothing to do with those things. But yeah, as an American I should be doing more to improve the world and in response to your vitriol I will try to do better.
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#13I want to help this guy but I have to ask....how did the parents just "forget" to get his citizenship complete????
“There wasn’t a lot of education to adoptive parents in the earlier time about naturalizing their children or even what papers to keep, said Kessel, whose organization is helping push for bills in the House and Senate.
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#14No reason not to pass the adoption citizenship act.
If they become citizens, they can vote. They might be likely as a whole to vote for or against things that bother certain groups in Congress. That by itself will be a reason for those parties to prevent them from being citizens. We see the same thing with the islanders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
How many people would become citizens under this law though? I doubt it would be a significant amount in terms of voting in or out certain politicians.
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#16I thought an executive decision is all it's needed but apparently not.
Interestingly, there is a special law to expedite naturalization for those who "made an extraordinary contribution to the national security of the United States or to the conduct of United States intelligence activities". But even there it's a 5 person per year maximum.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE...
Congress can change the laws obviously, wonder what the turnaround there could be.
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#17No reason not to pass the adoption citizenship act.
If they become citizens, they can vote. They might be likely as a whole to vote for or against things that bother certain groups in Congress. That by itself will be a reason for those parties to prevent them from being citizens. We see the same thing with the islanders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CesHr99ezWE
That's simply putting political gamesmanship over humanity, in the most inhumane way imaginable!
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#18This is just wrong. He entered the country legally. The Adoption Citizenship Act seems like the right way to handle this.
It isn't, not without an amendment it seems. These people were too old to qualify.
The reason the law was that way is to prevent loopholes like someone adopting a 30 year old person and then using this law to naturalize them.
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#19Americans killed all the natives, then they killed all the Mexicans in California (ok "expulsed" some). And now everyone must believe they are the good ones and kicking Latinos is the right thing. You know what, fuck you, prove you are different than ISIS, prove you are rightfully the world police .
You've chosen a nice arbitrary point to start judging people. Europeans didn't disturb some idyllic peace in the Americas. The natives were slaughtering and conquering each other left and right. The difference is that the Europeans had the advanced technology and culture to win.
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#20I know a girl that had to leave the U.S. >24The story ( as far as I can remember ) is that a family of Germans moved to the U.S. with their 1 year old child. 24 years later the child graduated university and ... needs to apply for a green card or permanent VISA.
US government refused, so she had to come back to Germany.
I've never understood why U.S. is so protective in terms of citizenship. In most of the EU countries you get naturalized ( receive citizenship ) if you spend certain amount of time in the country and pass a test ( Germany I think it's 7 yrs ).