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#citizenship

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beSpacific

@w7voa where are thou America? Department of Homeland Security announced Feb. 25 it was mandating that all people in the United States illegally register with the federal government, and said those who didn’t self-report could face fines or prosecution. Failure to register is considered a crime, and people will be required to carry registration documents with them or risk prison time and fines. Registration will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older without legal status. #citizenship #freedom

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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel:

Helen Bobat, Canadian Permanent Resident for 25 years, is stranded in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 after her PR card was stolen.

Spoiler alert: Get your citizenship as soon as you’re eligible.

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/cana
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Helen Bobat, une résidente permanente canadienne pendant 25 ans, est coincée au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 après que sa carte de RP a été volée.

Divulgâcheur: Obtenez votre citoyenneté dès que vous devenez éligible.

// Article en anglais //

CBCCanadian permanent resident stranded abroad after ID stolen | CBC NewsHelen Bobat went to England in mid-March for a five-day trip with only a week's worth of medication. Now she's stranded without a permanent resident card, and with few options to return.
#Canada#Citizenship#Citoyenneté
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Chuck Darwin

For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,

most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.

One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.

Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.

If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.

Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.

To justify these measures, the executive order
👉purports to combat large-scale voter fraud:
⚠️the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.

(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most

-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)

The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.

If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.

Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.

🔥Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;

the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.

(As NPR reported, researchers have found that
👉 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)❗️

There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.

“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.

Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”

truthout.org/articles/trump-as

Donald Trump
Truthout · Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of ElectionsHis order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions, but multiple lawsuits have already sprung up to challenge it.
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

#WhatsMissing: The "#AntiThiel - #Grant":

Sadly I'm not a #billionaire, cuz otherwise I would've done so and hired people to be able to do so.

  • Instead I'm just gonna continue helping a couple wherever I can…
#DoGoodAndInciteOthersToDoTheSame#USpol#AntiIntellectualism
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h o ʍ l e t t

→ Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling
truthout.org/articles/indigeno

“We should not have to prove our citizenship, […] We are the original people in this country, but we’re in a #scary time right now, and I don’t want any #American #Indian to get lost in the #system. [ICE] ‘lost’ children the last time they did this. They lost little brown children that will never be reunited with their parents. And that is horrible. […]”

U.S. Special Agent Rodney Irby waits for backup agents while searching for smuggled marijuana on January 18, 2011, in the Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona.
Truthout · Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and ProfilingMany are working to ensure their citizens’ safety amid rising reports of Native people being stopped and questioned.
#Indigenous#ICE#Profiling
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Houston Public Media

The Texas Senate passed a bill that would require people to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in state elections. It would effectively require the state to prepare one ballot for federal elections and another for state elections.

houstonpublicmedia.org/article

Houston Public Media · Texas Senate passes bill requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to voteBy Andrew Schneider
#Elections#Immigration#News
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Zachary Wolfe

I am extraordinarily proud of the #students who stood up to remind #scotus that their voices are important and threatened by the #trump assault on #birthright #citizenship, and believe this brief adds to the discourse and understanding of this issue. We need more explanation of the stakes in allowing this rescission of rights and attack the rule of #law to go into effect.
supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/

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