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points by qup 2 days ago | 0 comments

He actually has a valid Mexican birth certificate, and the guys in charge of who is and isn't a citizen said he isn't.

They didn't randomly pick on this guy, and they've deported millions of people without deporting a citizen.

[–] Buttons840 2 days ago

> the guys in charge of who is and isn't a citizen said he isn't.

At least you recognize that who is and isn't a citizen is no longer determined by law and facts, but by "guys".

[–] qup 1 day ago

There's been no change in how it's determined.

Next you'll learn about how laws come into existence, get interpreted, and get enforced.

[–] Rohansi 2 days ago

From what I've seen it looks like he has a birth certificate in both countries? If he does and his US birth certificate says he was born in the US then he is a US citizen.

[–] 999900000999 2 days ago

Not to mention at least a few hundred America citizens have been indefinitely detained in all this.

A few other examples of full citizens being deported are out there , but your not going to convince certain people with logic.

>Karen, 65, had a British passport and a tourist visa.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton...

Thank God we surrendered all of our basic rights. Anything to stop elderly British women!

[–] qup 1 day ago

> we surrendered all of our basic rights

Which rights did you surrender?

[–] 999900000999 1 day ago

You first.

Tell me how detaining an elderly British woman made you feel safer.

[–] qup 1 day ago

If he's a US citizen, we'll find out and he'll be the first one ever deported.

Maybe in a few years there will be another one.

I think their track record has enough nines to make any techbro jealous. Even if he were a citizen, which he isn't, his singular deportation was easily worth the result.

Since he's a Mexican citizen, it can barely be called a hardship.

Mexico is a great place, by most accounts.

[–] Rohansi 1 day ago

Your message suggests there is both a possibility that he is a US citizen and also claims that he is not a US citizen.

If it was 100% clear that he is not a US citizen then I don't think they would have let him back into the country. I'm curious to see how they are going to prove that he was not born in the US, assuming his US birth certificate is valid. Ideally the Mexican birth certificate shouldn't take precedence over the US one.