Also, what Trump is talking about is already law in America, since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 was passed.

Link: https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1672775053912449024

  • regul [any]
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    2 years ago

    It's still a question on the citizenship application I think, whether or not you have ever been a member of the Communist Party.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      And if you answer yes or you answer no and that turns out to be a lie, your citizenship can be taken away.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        America be like

        Shahist torturer? geordi-yes

        Nazi war criminal? geordi-yes

        Gusano terrorist? geordi-yes

        Junior Undersecretary for the village collective farm? geordi-no

        Murica

        • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Communist parties are explicitly singled out and criminalized, but the other type of organization that’s criminalized are “extremist” and “anti american” ones. But the fun part of that is that the latter is extremely vague, so any fascist can argue “actually, we just ask questions, we’re not extremist” and the court will say “ah makes sense.”

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            2 years ago

            The definition of Terrorism is literally just "When you didn't buy the explosives with your CIA credit card"

            And absolutely deadpan, no joke, afaik the US's official definition of extremism is when someone wants to change anything about the system at all, whether they're using legal and above board electoral means or threatening to blow up the moon with a death ray

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Robotnik was a CIA asset through a splinter faction posing as Pathet Lao ultra-hardliners.

          • Vampire [any]
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            2 years ago

            The PLO is also mentioned by name in the Act.

            Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible.

            An alien who is an officer, official, representative, or spokesman of the Palestine Liberation Organization is considered, for purposes of this chapter, to be engaged in a terrorist activity.

            https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182&num=0&edition=prelim

            • SoyViking [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              the Communist or any other totalitarian party

              Mr. officer the communist party in a member of is not The Communist party, it's just a generic communist party.

              • Vampire [any]
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                2 years ago

                I wonder how this applies to the 95 million CPC members.

                Searching the internet shows some complexity, there's mentions of it being tightened in 2020.

                I personally know at least one CPC member who got a US visa (not sure what category). Maybe that was before 2020.

        • Vampire [any]
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          2 years ago

          They ask if you worked for the German government 1933-1945.

          They ask you this regardless of what year you were born.

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      2 years ago

      A relative of mine got grilled on that shit during their citizenship interview recently because their English isn't that strong and they were confused about the question, it's fucking ridiculous