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355 points Aloisius | 2 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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youngtaff ◴[26 Jun 25 22:11 UTC] No.44391990[source]▶
It’s not just tariffs that are the issue… quite a few people from other countries have stopped coming to the US and are avoiding buying US products where possible
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tombert ◴[26 Jun 25 23:31 UTC] No.44392478[source]▶
I don't blame them. My wife got her US citizenship very recently (like two months ago), and historically I have thought that was going to allow me to finally have a sigh of relief after years of fighting with and thousands of dollars spent for the immigration system in the US.

Now Republicans are actively trying to denaturalize people so they can be deported. I have no idea how successful that will actually be but the fact that there's an active attempt for it is enough to trigger anxiety for me.

If this is how they're treating naturalized citizens, I certainly cannot blame people for not visiting the US on a tourist visa; who the fuck knows what would happen to them? They're detaining tourists for bald JD Vance memes [1], I would stay the hell away from America and spend my vacation money elsewhere.

It really depresses me. I love the US. I was born here. I live here. Much as I love visiting Europe, I haven't really wanted to live anywhere else than the US, but I fear that this active hostility towards our foreign trading partners might cause permanent and irreparable damage. For the first time in my life, I have seriously started to consider moving me and my wife to a different country, which I hope I don't have to do but I am genuinely scared that they're going to detain my Mexican-immigrant wife.

[1] I know that CBP is denying that it was because of a meme, but instead because of drug use, but in this particular case, legitimacy doesn't matter. If it's believable that I could be detained in a country because I texted a meme to my friends, there's absolutely no way in hell I am visiting that country.

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stevenwoo ◴[27 Jun 25 03:35 UTC] No.44393485[source]▶
No one is safe. It took quite a while to bring the one guy they sent to El Salvador on the obviously photoshopped faked evidence he was a gang member in MS13, and they claim they have the right to send US citizens there as well where it will be easy to deny a lot of legal rights like habeas corpus or sixth amendment.
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1. tombert ◴[27 Jun 25 05:25 UTC] No.44393906[source]▶
Yep. I didn’t think I would ever need it, but I have an immigration attorney saved, for myself, in case they actively try and denaturalize anyone who has ever said anything bad about Trump, which I have in many places.

Not sure how much it would help if shit hits the fan but it’s sort of surreal regardless.

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2. stevenwoo ◴[27 Jun 25 15:00 UTC] No.44397294[source]▶
Wow, Trump administration just won the birthright citizenship case in front of Supreme Court so they are going to take that away for political dissenters - federal judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions so each person in each case will have to file a separate appeal - those who live in the 22 states in the current lawsuit have an injunction while those who live in the 28 mostly red states not in the current cases can have babies born without birthright citizenship.