Citizenship is a bureaucratic and not a moral category. And as a practical matter, the United States owes just as much to the people it promised citizenship to as it does to those who already got it. Afghans are not second-class human beings.
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American immigration policy is at its cruelest when it cuts across families. The US citizens still stranded in Afghanistan aren't blond aid workers with great teeth, they're Afghans facing an impossible decision. And the cause of their plight is our bureaucratized fear of Muslims
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Notice that they'll never show you the faces or stories of these Americans allegedly being abandoned in favor of filthy refugees, since doing that would require us to confront the fact that the distinction is capricious and arbitrary
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I don't want to speak for other immigrants, but I didn't suddenly start to see my reflection in mirrors and help old ladies cross the street when I got my certificate of naturalization, and when I eventually burn it in a fit of performative Twitter drama I'll still be a great guy
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