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What happens when you lose an account now? Or if you close an account on a service that doesn't reserve usernames (e.g. Twitter)? All of a sudden someone is using "yourname" on twitter to say something the US immigration officers don't like. That's not far fetched at all
You report it.
I wonder why the US sees everyone who is not from the US as having a lower worth or being a lower class or something like that. Even the laws are constructed around that...
Not at all. The US simply distinguished between people who have a right to be here, and people who are allowed to be here by the grace of the government. Its not like the Swiss don’t have to answer these questions. It’s a sovereign entity enforcing its right of exclusion.
I legitimately don’t remember most of the usernames I used in HN alone the past year alone. Who doesn’t use throwaway accounts?
I don’t. But just curious. What type of scenario do you register throwaway accounts for?
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Not at all. The US simply distinguished between people who have a right to be here, and people who are allowed to be here by the grace of the government. Its not like the Swiss don’t have to answer these questions. It’s a sovereign entity enforcing its right of exclusion.
It's that kind of lawyering that makes the world a crappy place. While you can always fall back to strict rules, it's a shitty excuse for people to use all the time when they simply want to create an us-versus-them construction.
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Not true. Immigration determinations are appealable, with certain limitations, to the circuit courts of appeal.
How does that make what I said "not true?" What I said is a well established fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Office_for_Immigrati... You can, under limited circumstances, appeal your case to a real court, but the primary court that most people being deported deal with is in the executive branch meaning the executive branch conducts a full deportation from inception to execution in almost all cases.
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Your links are from 2 months ago, and this submission has already generated a substantial discussion. Why kill it now?
Submissions count as dupes on HN if the story has had significant attention in the last year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html . When it's an ongoing story and a submission contains significant new information, we sometimes override that. But it doesn't appear to be the case here. Marking this post a dupe doesn't mean the story is unimportant. It's just that front page real estate i…
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It's that kind of lawyering that makes the world a crappy place. While you can always fall back to strict rules, it's a shitty excuse for people to use all the time when they simply want to create an us-versus-them construction.
It’s not lawyering. It’s a fundamental principle of what it means to be a sovereign country. A country is a chunk of land defined by its borders. There is a fundamental difference between people inside and people outside those borders. That difference doesn’t arise from the qualities of the people, but the mere fact of their geographic location.
What you are referring to exists within the realm of lawyering. It doesn't change the physical world, humans are still humans, sand is still sand and water is still water.
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It’s not lawyering. It’s a fundamental principle of what it means to be a sovereign country. A country is a chunk of land defined by its borders. There is a fundamental difference between people inside and people outside those borders. That difference doesn’t arise from the qualities of the people, but the mere fact of their geographic location.
What differences would there be between those people? They still poop, eat, sleep etc. They probably breathe air as well. A drink things. And pee. What you are referring to exists within the realm of lawyering. It doesn't change the physical world, humans are still humans, sand is still sand and water is still water.
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What differences would there be between those people? They still poop, eat, sleep etc. They probably breathe air as well. A drink things. And pee. What you are referring to exists within the realm of lawyering. It doesn't change the physical world, humans are still humans, sand is still sand and water is still water.
There's no difference, except some people are on one side of the border and others are on the other side. This is not a legal concept. We merely use laws to express a concept that existed long before the laws. Groups of people controlling territory with defined boundaries, and enforcing those boundaries, is a concept that long predates law. Indeed, it's not even unique to humans--many animals, such as wolves and dogs…