I think we know who will be under the microscope of this one:
The Trump administration has codified its efforts to strip some Americans of their US citizenship in a recently published justice department memo that directs attorneys to prioritize denaturalization for naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes.
The memo, published on 11 June, calls on attorneys in the department to institute civil proceedings to revoke a person’s United States citizenship if an individual either “illegally procured” naturalization or procured naturalization by “concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation”.
Concealment of a material fact of by willful misrepresentation is doing a lot of work here.
The boss of Tesla and SpaceX, who has in recent weeks supported Donald Trump’s campaign for a second presidency while promoting the Republican White House nominee’s opposition to “open borders” on his X social media site, has previously maintained that his transition from student to entrepreneur was a “legal grey area”.
But the Washington Post reported Saturday that the world’s wealthiest individual was almost certainly working in the US without correct authorization for a period in 1995 after he dropped out of Stanford University to work on his debut company, Zip2, which sold for about $300m four years later.
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“If you do anything that helps to facilitate revenue creation, such as design code or try to make sales in furtherance of revenue creation, then you’re in trouble,” Leon Fresco, a former US justice department immigration litigator, told the outlet.
Last week, US First Lady Melania Trump’s immigration history once again came under fire during a heated congressional hearing. Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett questioned how the former model qualified for a visa typically reserved for individuals with “extraordinary ability.” Crockett’s remarks come at a time when the president is railing against immigrants and directing ICE officials to enact raids across the country.
“The first lady, a model—and when I say model, I’m not talking Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell-level—applied for and was given an EB-1 visa,” Crockett said incredulously.
“Let me tell you how you receive an Einstein visa,” she said, “you’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement, like being awarded a Nobel Peace Prize or a Pulitzer, being an Olympic medallist, or having other sustained extraordinary abilities and success in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics. Last time I checked, the first lady had none of those accolades under her belt. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see that the math ain’t mathin’ here.”
The math definitely ain’t mathin.’ But then Trump is handing out citizenship to anyone rich enough to buy one and South African white supremacists so I’d guess Elon and Melania are safe. People who came here from what Trump calls the “shithole countries” are the ones who need to be Einsteins. The good white people will be welcomed with open arms (as long as they’ve never said a word against Trump or his cult.)