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A 2-year-old American girl has been left stateless after the Trump administration deported her alongside her family.
Emanuelly Borges Santos, known to her family as Manu, was born in a Florida hospital in 2022. She has an American passport and a Social Security card. Nevertheless, Manu and her parents, who are both undocumented, were packed onto a plane with 94 others and shipped to Brazil in February, according to a report from The Washington Post.
When they arrived, Brazilian officials were shocked to find the American toddler among the deportees.
“We’d never seen another case like this,” federal police officer Alexsandra Oliveira Medeiros Reis told the Post.
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There really is no good answer to the problem Trump has created here:
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Deport a US citizen because her parents are undocumented.
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Deport the parents and put the kid in
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Deny her birthright citizenship.
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Acknowledge that the parents are undocumented but allow them to stay because “anchor baby”.
Really what needs to happen is you give the parents a path to citizenship, but Trump would never allow that.
Your last is the solution. Reform immigration from the ground up.
I see a fifth option. All US passports include this message:
The Secretary of State of the United States of America hereby requests all whom it may concern to permit the citizen/national of the United States named herein to pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need to give all lawful aid and protection.
So, since Marco Rubio is so concerned with all US citizens’ lawful aid and protection, someone should escort her back to the US, drop her off with her US passport at the Rubio house, and tell Marco that it’s his job to help her out. It says it right there!
I’ll be damned, it’s RIGHT THERE! How did I miss that?
They should just buy a Trump citizenship card. /s
I think “good answer” really depends on your values. If I hate people from or with heritage from South America or Africa or whatever other place, then it’s probably great that the government is illegally deporting citizens with that background. Unfortunately, that’s where a lot of people are. Admittedly, they’re also ok with denying birthright citizenship.
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It’s things like this where at times I wish there was a god and these people would actually have to stand in judgment and defend themselves
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Yup. IF God exists, he either doesn’t care for us at all, or is actively evil.
Similar to like if we created a swamp somewhere and there was bacteria growing in it. We’d give no fucks, or poison the bacteria by dumping toxic shit in it.
I picture God, if there is one, as a researcher who is doing some kind of research on the plants and animals in an Earth shaped petri dish. He may have intervened in ancient times until he got the initial parameters he wanted but now he’s just monitoring and taking notes. Someday he’ll finish up and kill everything and start the dissection phase.
These people wouldn’t stand before God. They would immediately get a one way ticket to hell. As they did not allow due process in life, they will not get it in death.
Ironically and hypocritically many of them are devout Christians.
I saw somewhere recently trump still has a massive approval rating from evangelicals/protestants.
Devout isn’t the right word there. Saying they are devout means that they have a deep commitment to their faith. That is clearly not true. These people may claim to read their holy book, but they clearly don’t understand the slightest bit of it, well nothing in the new testament certainly. They love the old, first testament, fire-and-brimstone God that tells his followers to kill their enemies down to the last man, woman, or child. They have no interest in reading the woke Jesus stuff.
Ironically and hypocritically
“Predictably” would also fit here.
I don’t think hell would want them either they’d probably be given a bus ticket to the US.
she must be a gang member, right?
I won’t believe it until I see her arial font tats
All the cool kids are getting tatted in comic sans now. It’s how you know they’re hard core.
She is not stateless. She is an American citizen. Wrongly deported, yes. Stateless, no.
Stateless in the sense of being exiled from her country
That’s not what “stateless” means.
OK. So what’s the word for “unable to return to your country of citizenship due to circumstances beyond your control and also unable to stay in the country you’re presently in due to only having a tourist visa”?
Had her statehood wrongly, cruelly, illegally, willfully, and thoroughly ripped from her without due process.
But stateless… no.
Are you under the impression that statelessness would ever be something that was done rightfully, kindly, legally, etc?
This is what statelessness looks like. It is wrong, cruel, and illegal.
“Statelessness” is a state of being.
It is something that can be chosen. When chosen, yep, it’s “rightfully, kindly, legally, etc.” and that term applies.
When done to you, it is “wrong, cruel, and illegal” and some other term is more applicable. “Statelessness” is much too passive. 🤷♂️
Statelessness is also something that is inflicted on people. The UN talks about this stuff all the time.
How would you even choose it? I guess you could renounce all citizenship and then go live in a seastead or a colony on Mars, but it’s usually something that is done to people.
She can come back across the border with her US Passport.
Getting that passport would be impossible tho. Ipso facto, she’s stateless.
Hey now. How can media outlets manufacture consent if they don’t misrepresent her status?
That 2 Year Old girl was a CRIMINAL!
-People who voted for the Convicted Felon!
