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Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by int_19h »

outworlder wrote: post #220
mandeepj wrote: post #201

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Nope! Citizenship is a basic human right. No one can be deprived of it. Middle Eastern countries have strict laws regarding citizenship; in that case, the person would have the citizenship of their parents. If one can prove legally their citizenship, that country is bound to take them back if deported. #4 -> https://www.mea.gov.in/Speeches-Statements.htm?dtl/38990/Sta...

> Nope! Citizenship is a basic human right. No one can be deprived of it. Unfortunately not true. Yes, it's a human right. Yes, there's all sorts of international agreements trying to prevent it (because it's a real mess that nobody wants to deal with), but it still happens. This is more likely for countries that force one to renounce their birth citizenship. Not all those regimes want to take them back even if the o…

Also FWIW, United States is not a signatory to the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, so it's not a "contracting state".

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by int_19h »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #355
int_19h wrote: post #345

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Slight correction: "enhanced" driver licenses are citizen-only, and this is actually checked during issue, so they can also serve as proof of citizenship.

Nope, that’s a decision made by each state.

Enhanced driver licenses, not regular ones. These come with a whole lot of federal strings attached, and exist pretty much entirely for the purpose of traveling across the border without a passport. As far as I know, the feds require citizenship checks for any participating state.

Now, in some states, regular driver licenses have a citizen or non-citizen marker on them, but that's a whole separate thing (and AFAIK the feds don't consider them sufficient proof in any case).

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by tome »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #357
tome wrote: post #203

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The 2021 elections ended with a government of 61 seats, including 7 seats for Labor (left), 6 seats for Meretz (fairly hard left), 4 seats for Ra'am (Islamist), so 25% from what would be considered a "left bloc" from a Western viewpoint. Then Yesh Atid and Blue and White had 17 and 8 respectively, both centrists, so just short of 50%. So there most certainly is a left (albeit small) and a substantial centre. Israel h…

> Israel's military operates according to the laws of war That’s a highly contested claim and I personally don’t believe it. You can prove it to be false without even looking at their actions in Gaza, just the torture of prisoners.

It is not the policy of the Israeli military to torture prisoners. If your point is "The US behaved significantly worse than Israel in Abu Ghraib and I hate the US" then fair enough. I don't really have a response.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by tome »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #361
tome wrote: post #242

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Yes, that's my point. Any plausible Israeli government, left, right or centre, would have conducted the war in roughly the same way, including the historical left governments of Ben Gurion, Meir, Rabin, Peres or Barak. Thus attempts to paint Israel as "right wing" due to its conduct of the war are fallacious. I'm just pointing out that painting falsehoods about Israel and its people (as you have continued to do in yo…

Here's a fact about Israel. It is illegally annexing other countries' land right now with impunity. Is there any country that does this that isn't authoritarian and right wing?

Israel claims the Golan Heights as part of its sovereign territory. It captured the Golan Heights during a defensive war in 1967, when it also captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. It gave back the Sinai Peninsula for a peace agreement with Egypt in 1979. The capture of all that territory happened under a left-wing Labor government led by Levi Eshkol. The return of the Sinai happened under a right-wing government led by Menachem Begin, of the party that is the forerunner to Likud. Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip to leave it in the hands of the Palestinian Authority in 2005. That happened under Ariel Sharon, a right wing prime minister (albeit in a centrist party, Kadima).

The West Bank is still occupied because the Palestinians have not agreed to a peace deal with Israel, despite being offered one including that land most recently in 2008. Given what happened on Oct 7th, I don't think there will ever be such an offer again.

Israel is currently occupying parts of Lebanon and Syria because Hezbollah fired 8,000 missiles at Israel from southern Lebanon during 2023 and 2024, and Hezbollah was supplied with those missiles through, with the consent of, Syria. Hezbollah's presence south of the Litani river was in contravention of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

So whether Israel captures or returns land has really nothing to do with whether its government is left or right wing. Israel is not authoritarian. It is a constitutional democracy.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by yes_really »

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #365
yes_really wrote: post #317

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The comment said "Zionists and other far right twitter accounts", which means at least 2 of the accounts are "far right". Can you explain how https://x.com/canarymission and https://x.com/CampusJewHate are "far right"? Those accounts document hatred against Jewish people in Columbia and other universities. How on Earth are these accounts "far right"? Can you link to at least one post from either of those accounts tha…

Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews and posting people mugshot style on a website as anti-Semites because they support the Palestinian people right to have a nation and to return to the homes they were kicked out of is far-right. The same way wanting the Ukrainians to be able to go back to Crimea and other Russian-annexed lands is not hatred of Russians. And if a website posted mugshot style bios of Ukrain…

> Because supporting Palestine isn't hating Jews

Did you fail to read any of my comments or are you just pretending? Khalil gave a speech openly defending the "armed resistance" of Hamas [1].

[1] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1900204678240928166

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by yes_really »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #366
yes_really wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment said "Zionists and other far right twitter accounts", which means at least 2 of the accounts are "far right". Can you explain how https://x.com/canarymission and https://x.com/CampusJewHate are "far right"? Those accounts document hatred against Jewish people in Columbia and other universities. How on Earth are these accounts "far right"? Can you link to at least one post from either of those accounts tha…

How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil? Along with all the celebration of DHS arrests on campus and advocating to deport more students, calling Khalil and campus protests terrorism, and proclaiming that support for Palestine is a mastermind plot by Iran to destroy America? I could also accept a description as “extremists out in their own…

> How about this one that says Dick Durban is supporting Hamas because he has advocated for the release of Mahmoud Khalil?

You made a false statement of fact. The tweet never said that. It reads [1]:

> 1/ Canary Mission is apolitical. We call out antisemitism on all sides and have never had a vested interest in a political party. However, Senator Dick Durbin is testing our principles like never before. His defense of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Hamas activist, raises serious moral and ethical concerns. It is troubling that one of our great parties is standing behind a Hamas supporter - a group recognized as a terrorist organization—the same group that perpetrated the massacre of October 7, which included the murder, rape and kidnapping of innocent civilians.

It clearly says that Khalil is a Hamas supporter, not Dick Durban. There's video of Khalil giving a speech defending Hamas' "armed resistance" [2]. Was this a lack of basic reading comprehension or was that a deliberate lie?

[1] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1899487784454508681

[2] https://x.com/canarymission/status/1900204678240928166

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by atoav »

Alupis wrote: post #255
worik wrote: post #235

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> There have been two dozen stories of random tourists being disappeared for no good reason from all over the US. Really? That is frightening. I plan to be a tourist in the USA within a decade. Can you expand on that?

It's BS. Random tourists aren't being "disappeared for no good reason". A "tourist" that overstayed by 2 years without applying for a Visa and/or started working here are being deported back to their home nation - in accordance with the law. There's a tremendous amount of scaremongering, fearmongering, and misinformation being thrown about currently. Majority of it is very much over stated hyperbole.

Sources say otherwise: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/german-tourist...

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by light_hue_1 »

int_19h wrote: post #372
lazyasciiart wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, that’s a decision made by each state.

Enhanced driver licenses, not regular ones. These come with a whole lot of federal strings attached, and exist pretty much entirely for the purpose of traveling across the border without a passport. As far as I know, the feds require citizenship checks for any participating state. Now, in some states, regular driver licenses have a citizen or non-citizen marker on them, but that's a whole separate thing (and AFAIK th…

States can give out enhanced driver's licenses to people who are non citizens. The only requirement is that they are here legally at the time.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by nobodywillobsrv »

tshaddox wrote: post #262
lizknope wrote: post #249

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I'm an American and I was annoyed at how aggressive and militarized the southern border is. I was on a big road trip across the country visiting national parks. I went to Organ Pipe Nat. Monument in Arizona which literally touches the Mexican border. On my way there I drove through a border patrol checkpoint 10 miles north of the border inside the US. They don't check southbound traffic, only northbound. I never ente…

> Okay, you can go but you should carry your passport Funny, since half of U.S. citizens don't have a passport.

It is insane to travel without a passport. How is it even possible! Americans are living in some weird timeline.

Re: I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

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Post by mmustapic »

tome wrote: post #374
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a fact about Israel. It is illegally annexing other countries' land right now with impunity. Is there any country that does this that isn't authoritarian and right wing?

Israel claims the Golan Heights as part of its sovereign territory. It captured the Golan Heights during a defensive war in 1967, when it also captured the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula. It gave back the Sinai Peninsula for a peace agreement with Egypt in 1979. The capture of all that territory happened under a left-wing Labor government led by Levi Eshkol. The return of the Sinai happened under a…

The West Bank was occupied and colonised, which is a war crime. The peace deal involves leaving only a fraction of the territory to the Palestinians, and leaves Israeli citizens in the colonies.
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