“This update does not affect birthright citizenship, to the military or anyone else in the U.S. or anyone else in the world,” one official said from the top of the call. “This will only affect a handful of individuals each year.” 2/
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The official said USCIS previously counted living abroad in the military or working for the government as “residing” in the U.S. — but State Department didn’t. So USCIS, he said, had to change its policies to bring the two agencies into agreement. 3/
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“A former Marine myself, I know the sacrifices our military servicemembers endure without complaint,” the official said. “This affects a very small population of individuals...There is still a pathway to citizenship for these children, it simply requires different paperwork.” 4
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USCIS was asked if they had any regrets about the policy rollout. A different official: “We coordinated very closely with DoD to try to message this as carefully as possible, it’s extremely difficult to explain all the technical details.” Adds “very, very small” # affected 5/
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Asked why State couldn’t change their policy to match, the 2nd official said: “I think our policy interpretation is sound, but it isn’t what the law says...If I could change the law to our interpretation I would happily do so, but it’s simply not what the statute says.” 6/6
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Yesterday was the trial balloon, today was the walk back. Expect to continue to see these types of things happen as a litmus test for the eventual attempt at removing birthright citizenship.
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Nice walk back you should take California Ted back too!
@DavidKubat1 had it right get the document, read it, understand it then report it. - Još 1 odgovor
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@petenajarian seems I too reacted before reading the thread... apologies. It says the rule will affect a "very, very small number of people." Military people? Two agencies did not coordinate their message before rolling out? Anyway, I wanted to behave cordially as you always do.Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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