#american citizenship

[santaclaralocalnews]

The year Miguel Iberra was born, the United States was in its third year of Prohibition. The government had yet to acknowledge Native-American citizenship. Henry Ford’s Model T was still puttering around the streets. On Sept. 29, Iberra turned 102. Moving from Guadalajara, Mexico in 1953, Iberra spent most of his life in Santa Clara. During that time, he has seen a lot of change, but the one constant has been his family. Read complete news at svvoice.com.

[miss-eli-starfleet]

I’m one day late oops.

But since I’m a citizen of both, I want to wish everyone a Happy Canadian Thanksgiving and America a Happy Columbus Day.

We American citizens nor our government, none of us would be here without him and his discovery of America. I actually forgot the holiday existed tbh… and I hear people are trying to rename it to something else entirely?

Why rename such an important piece of American history? Why try even to erase it? All this wasn’t a thing back when I was a kid.

Anyways, maybe it’s a co-incidence this year but cool that the two holidays take place in the same day.

I hope y’all had a good time yesterday :)

[alfa-wolf45]

The way I see things if you are not MAGA and you do not support the republic as it stands then you are not American and unfit FOR AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

STOP TREATING THE USAMERICAN COLONIAL PROJECT LIKE IT IS COMPLETE!!!!! it is an active settler-colony, and by acting like it's not actively colonizing the land it is on you are literally doing their job for them. you all are like five minutes away from lamenting the fucking vanishing indian.

[justjudethoughts]

"yOu'Re nOt GeRmAn, yOu'rE AmErIcAn"

Okay, bestie, let me explain something to you that is very important to American culture — very, very few of us are ethnically American. When an American says they are "German" or "Irish" or "Italian" they aren't talking about citizenship. They are talking about ethnicity.

The U.S. is primarily a country of immigrants. Everyone says we "don't have a culture" or we have a "bastardized version of *insert culture*" but that's not true!!!! Our culture is made up of American Immigrant Culture!!!! American Italian food isn't "fake Italian food" — it's the innovation of Italian Immigrants who used traditional Italian food along with the ingredients that were more accessible to them in the States. It might not be the food "of Italy" but it is the food of proud sons and daughters of Italy who are also proud Americans. And you can be both.

When American culture is treated as a rip-off of every other culture, we are essentially dishonoring the memory of very brave men and women who chose to leave their homelands under unfortunate circumstances. Men and women who didn't have much money, but did what they could. Used the materials they had. And still managed to make something beautiful out of it. When you leave your home, it doesn't stop being part of your identity — it just looks a little different now. You pass on your old traditions to your children and your children's children, and along the way, new ones are created. Cultures mix and create subcultures. And it's beautiful. It's good. It's primally human.

If I'm not "German" care to explain to me my pasty white skin? Or my last name? Or all the post cards written to and from Germany that we have upstairs in a box? Or the name of my town? Or my grandparents' first language? Or the fact that my American Church, in the year 2024, still sings "Stille Nacht" at every Christmas Eve mass? Sure, I'm not fully German, but the awareness of where I have come from makes up a huge part of my understanding of myself and my place in this world. I was raised in a German Catholic farmtown, and it shows. It shows in the way we worship, and our work ethic, and our reverence for family life.

When an American calls themselves "German" or "Irish" or "Italian" they mean that's where their blood comes from. And it's okay for them to care about that. It's okay for them to care about their roots. It's a major part of American culture.

If you want to "respect" world cultures, you can't just pick and choose which ones are "real" according to you.

[uscitizenshipbangla]

US Citizenship Interview 2023, US Citizenship Bangla, Naturalization Test 2023, American Citizenship https://youtu.be/_bKvcBD6muc

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

The Trump administration is saying Native Americans are not entitled to birthright citizenship.

[republicansaretheproblem]

Why stop at birthright citizenship, let’s “denaturalize” Elon “South Africa” Musk, Sebastian “UK” Gorka, Dinesh “India” DeSouza, Milo “UK” Yiannopolis, Ted “Canada” Cruz, Elaine “Taiwan” Chao, Dan “Scotland” Crenshaw, Mark “France” Meadows…

*Partial list.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

We tried to tell you...

[political-us]

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[batarangsoundsdumb]

i know at this point i shouldn't be surprised at nationalism- but why is it so obvious in the wikipedia/google intro blurb of bicultural & multicultural celebrities.

[stinkrat-aleks]

I think it’s so funny how hard xma!erik turns his life around like yeah this is the same character just ten years apart.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Russell Payne at Salon:

In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United States under the 14th Amendment, citing 19th-century law that excluded Native Americans from birthright citizenship. In a case on Trump's birthright citizenship executive order coming out of Washington, Justice Department attorneys quote the 14th Amendment, which reads that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” and hang their one of their arguments on the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” “Under the plain terms of the Clause, birth in the United States does not by itself entitle a person to citizenship. The person must also be ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States,” the filing reads. [...] The Justice Department attorneys return to the topic of whether or not Native Americans should be entitled to birthright citizenship later in their arguments, citing a Supreme Court case, Elk v. Wilkins, in which the court decided that “because members of Indian tribes owe ‘immediate allegiance’ to their tribes, they are not ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are not constitutionally entitled to Citizenship.”

What a disgrace of an executive order 47 signed regarding birthright citizenship! This also impacts Native Americans’ birthright citizenship claims.

[originalleftist]

It's long past time for America to either grant its territories greater autonomy, or statehood (the choice, of course, should be left to the residents of those territories).

Territories of mostly non-white people with second class citizenship are a relic of the colonial past.

Personally, I hope for statehood. I think Old Glory would look pretty damn fine with 56 stars!

FYI, the current populations of the US territories (plus DC) which do not have statehood, and what their Congressional representation would be, is (approximately) as follows:

Puerto Rico: 3, 239, 985 people. Four Congressional Representatives, 2 Senators.

DC: 689, 545 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Guam: 168,171 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

American Samoa: 46,531 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Northern Mariana Islands: 44,044 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

US Virgin Islands: 84,656 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Population is obviously approximate, as it changes daily. These are simply the first numbers that came up on Google when I searched today, Sunday evening on October 27th 2024.

The US currently has approximately 1 Congressional Representative per 747,000 people, and every state gets two Senators.

It has been argued that certain territories are too small to be states. However Puerto Rico's population outnumbers the states of Nevada, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, and Wyoming, per Wikipedia. DC outnumbers Vermont and Wyoming.

Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands are smaller by population than any current state. However, some historic states were smaller than at least some of these when they joined.