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Since the first day of his second term, US President Donald Trump has been trying to abolish the birth law on citizenship for children from immigrants who were born in the United States. A direct attack on the clear wording of the constitution. Now Trump is thinking loudly, the comedian Rosie O’Donnell, who was born in the United States, to withdraw citizenship. Because he doesn’t like her.
Trump spits his feelings on the Internet
“Because Rosie O’Donnell does not act in the best interest of our great country, I seriously consider to withdraw citizenship,” Trump wrote about Truth. “It is a threat to humanity and should stay in the wonderful country of Ireland if you want it there. God bless America!”
To a certain extent, the unstoppably poisonous Trump just spits on the Internet. It is extremely unlikely that Rosie O’Donnell will lose her citizenship and fundamental rights. Even under this extremely lawless government. And yet Trump’s threat against a comedian he has been despising for a long time does not happen in a vacuum. Just as little as his threat of having Bruce Springsteen pursued under criminal law. Because the rock star said something that Trump displeased. Trump’s government is actually investigating Trump’s opponent. Just because they made the president angry. All of these are different words in the same sentence of the same authoritarian textbook.
Trump’s Ministry of Justice has expressly stated how serious the government is to advance a large-scale ability campaign as part of Trump’s more comprehensive immigration. In private conversations, Trump repeatedly said in his second government that he has not seen a significant difference between naturalized citizens and people born in the USA for certain persons who for alleged reasons of “national security” or “crime” and want to deport them abroad.
“He just wants it to be done,” says a source who was in the room with the president this year in discussions on this topic.
Trump is openly threatened with withdrawal of citizenship because of expression
And now Trump tells a prominent political opponent that he was “seriously” determined to deprive her of American citizenship. Just because she perceived her right to freedom of expression.
In a more reasonable time, even if this did not result in a tangible scandal of the president – even if this did not result in any implementation regulations or an obviously illegal act that reveals a commander -in -chief who despises freedom of expression, fundamental constitutional values and its own people.
Of course, Trump has been having Rosie O’Donnell for many years. And the aversion is based on mutuality. Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland at the beginning of this year after her house in Los Angeles was destroyed by forest fires. She explained that she would return to the United States as soon as it “is certain for all citizens to live equally”.
This is only Trump’s latest threat to use citizenship as a weapon against his opponents. Trump recently indicated that he could try to dismiss Zohran Mamdani, the democratic-socialist MP of the state of New York and Democratic Mayor candidates of New York City. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda, came to the United States as a child and was naturalized in 2018.
“Many people say he is illegal here,” said Trump. “We will see everything.”
It is worth noting that Trump’s wife Melania is naturalized citizen. She received her US citizenship after marriage to Trump.
Trump wants to define who is a citizen
While Trump leads a comprehensive campaign to arrest, detention and deportation of immigrants, the president does not believe that citizenship should automatically protect Americans from being treated as brutally as non-state citizens. For example, Trump has publicly stated that he wanted to deport certain Americans abroad. And arrest there. And according to a report by the Rolling Stone from April, high -ranking members of his government actively played through how to implement this.
Trump believes that he can decide who is considered a citizen. Trump wants to achieve that against O’Donnell. Trump’s implementing regulation on birth law on citizenship, which he signed on the day of his inauguration, tries to end America’s promises to grant citizens born in the country – including the children of immigrants.
At first glance, this arrangement is obviously unconstitutional. The 14th additional article on the constitution clearly makes it clear: “All persons who were born or naturalized in the United States and are under their jurisdiction are citizens of the United States and the state in which they live.”
Trump’s arrangement was quickly blocked by several judges. And has already landed before the Supreme Court. However, the court’s conservative judges ignored the content of the case. And instead, Trump gave a procedure victory by pretending nationwide interim disposals by subordinate federal courts.
The fight continues. However, a federal judge in New Hampshire banned Trump on Thursday to enforce the birth law regulation, but allowed a class action lawsuit against the regulation.