“I’ll note that Trump has now casually threatened to denaturalize Elon Musk. Needless to say, I have no sympathy for anything that happens to that clown. But as I and others have noted in the past, it’s quite clear that Musk got and preserved his residency through false and fraudulent statements. Those material false claims are thus embedded in his subsequent citizenship. So the Trump DHS would have some non-trivial basis, at least an argument, for trying to strip Musk of his citizenship. Again, a big part of me would keel over in laughter to see this because of the way this immigrant — with at least a spotty history of acquiring residency — drove forward the anti-immigrant beast and then had the best turned on himself. But he’s not the only citizen with some discrepancies in his immigration background. It’s a bad, bad thing. And the wound isn’t just to the person who is denaturalized and deported. The far bigger one is to the nature of citizenship itself, the inherently second class status of all naturalized citizens and the equality of citizenship for everyone.”
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