The extremist right just got one more thing to worry about--if they're still here in 17 years. [View all]
If they haven't managed to make the Earth uninhabitable in the meantime, Republicans just got one more reason to be looking over their shoulder in about 17 years. There's a new Democrat in town!
My granddaughter, born over ten months ago in Frankfurt, Germany, was FINALLY granted her U.S. citizenship today. It took my daughter, as U.S. citizen living in Germany and working for a U.S. firm here, over TEN MONTHS and a mountain of paperwork to get U.S. citizenship for her baby daughter, but it finally paid off. We will have one more voter in our ranks in 17 years and seven weeks unless the Republicans find a way to make American citizens born in "libbrul" countries ineligible to vote (I wouldn't put it past them to try).
As a contrast, to get U.S. citizenship for my daughter when she was born in 1985, I went to the U.S. embassy in Germany, waked into their consular section with no appointment, presented the documents they asked me to bring, and, within 90 minutes, walked out of there with her U.S. birth certificate, her first U.S. passport and her Social Security number, something they said this morning that they couldn't give my granddaughter until she had her passport--which they could have made up for her on the spot, but some useless regulation now prevents unless, of course, your last name is Trump, McConnell or Kushner.
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