True enough, any citizen can do things to jeopardize their citizenship, just as anyone can do things that curtail other rights. But that is a one-way street. If you don't do those things, there is no miscellaneous category of ways others can take it away.
I agree. The thrust of my argument is that notions of inherent citizenship and the inherent rights of citizenship are not as solidly founded as are being claimed by some in this thread. Without undermining in any way your licet nisi prohibitum argument (which is correct), the broader observation is that if citizenship can be taken away by statute, then it ultimately arises from and is governed by statute. There's no magically inalienable status of citizenship—"God-given," for lack of a better term. Ultimately if a righteous government can already take your citizenship away for reasons, then a corrupt government can make up reasons to do it no matter how you got your citizenship or where your right to remain derives. And if you cannot depend on your citizenship or your right to remain, then where does that put all of us?
They cant be deported.
They have been already, and if Pres. Trump has his way, many more will be.
Unfortunately relevant reminder time. Trump pushed Birtherism, hard. That was a lot of Trump falsely claiming that Barrack Obama was not native born. Also a lot of Republicans supporting his false claims.
Not according to some. If they’re brown - undocumented. ◊◊◊◊ due process
There is no line for the vast majority of would-be immigrants, and imagining that there is one is sort of the problem--native-born Americans have no idea how broken our immigration system is, because they've never had cause to interact with it. For example, you think the immigration process is little more than a criminal background check and a job offer--why would vetting that take decades?
Address the other ways I mentioned.
No, that's not what happened. That's what ICE claimed was the case. If only those people had had due process...
It'll be a sight to see as you add more and more "or clauses" to that sentence.
And a naturalized citizen who has not committed any of the specifically listed offenses listed can also ONLY be deported in error, but right here, right now, the Lord of Misrule is working to change that. Malicious error is his joy. His mistakes are deliberate, his defiance of law and decency ongoing, his lies and fabrications egregious. He and his minions are right now challenging the boundaries of legality and civility, and challenging the very foundation of Constitutional law, threatening both the legislative and judicial powers with reprisal for ideological deviation. The gulf between "shouldn't" and "can't" is widening. You're free as always to decide what price you're willing to pay for your ideas, what liberties you're willing to sacrifice for them, but don't be too surprised when the bill comes due.
There is no process for the vast majority of would-be immigrants. They are simply ineligible for immigration visas.
Now that's a dead giveaway someone is really American!
What makes you think that the current regime would regard this as a bonus?