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Midnight Writer

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2. The only reason most Americans are citizens is because we were born here.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:52 PM

Dec 6

We didn't fill out applications, we didn't have to take a test, we didn't take a loyalty oath.

We were simply born here.

If that does not legally make us citizens, then what does? Can a petty, capricious leader simply decide we are garbage people and take away our citizenship?

Can we then be detained, put in a prison camp, deported to another despotic country?

Will anyone be safe from these abuses?

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Timothy Snyder: If the Fourteenth Amendment isn't real then Section 3 isn't real either and the justices are suddenly [View all] highplainsdem Dec 6 OP

There very strong legal reason wil be... lame54 Dec 6 #1

The only reason most Americans are citizens is because we were born here. Midnight Writer Dec 6 #2

That's certainly the only reason sicko is a citizen Maru Kitteh Dec 6 #3

Short answer, NO, no one will be safe. NotHardly Dec 6 #7

The next Democratic president can revoke their citizenship and depor t them. usonian Dec 6 #4

That's what I've been saying. Fiendish Thingy Dec 6 #5

They can essentially completely dissolve their authorityby extension of SSJVegeta Dec 6 #6

I think Snyder erred here. He probably meant to say "Article III," not "Section 3." Efilroft Sul Dec 6 #8

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