• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    So is the separation of church and state.
    And the right against unreasonable search and seizures.

    But it turns out writing it down doesn’t make it so. It’s not a fundamental law of the universe. It has to actually be upheld and defended for it to do anything. Until the American people do something they’ll just keep walking all over it.

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      The difference is that citizenship is about papers. It’s a law about law. So how are they circumventing it to pull citizenship from people? Operationally, how is it done.

      • Curious Canid@lemmy.ca
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        If you show the person at the border your paper, and they still won’t let you in, it doesn’t matter that you have the paper. It is just that simple. It’s illegal, but when the people who are supposed to be enforcing the laws are the ones breaking them, there isn’t any real recourse short of a popular uprising.