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Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offences.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani’s status after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican representative for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process.

Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media attention – and controversy – over his vocal support for Palestinian rights.

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[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Way to show weakness, cadet bone spurs.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh boy, get ready for mass protest in NYC.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Guess I need to be getting ready for dumbass libs to say. "It's still not fascism".

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 49 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Marco Rubio first. POS birthright citizenship. Or let’s deport Ted Cruz. I’m sure Canada will love to have his head on a stick.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Both of them should honestly be real worried about that. If Trump gets to fully exercise that power, and they step out of line a little bit, either one of them would be exiled in no time.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Senator who?

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 40 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

I don't understand! How does trump have so much over reach and why aren't the courts stopping him! Why is our government intentionally creating a fascist dictator!

The president of the United States has always been a public servant who represents the people of our country. He's not a king among men the Office of the President should not have the ability to strip the citizenship of any individual that's what immigration courts are for!

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

because the people who rabidly defend the second amendment don't give a shit, and approve of his racist oligarch bullshit

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Trump has started small, piece by piece, bit by bit. He's gotten away with everything else. So why wouldn't he get away with this?

And the people isn't doing anything about it. So why would he stop? Maybe americans should take a note from Ukraine's book. You protest outside the capitol and you don't go home until you get what you want.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 minutes ago

For sheer size of the US, it can be exceedingly difficult to get all the way to DC. If you can't fly and have to drive for whatever reason, financial or otherwise, it's a 39 hour drive going from LA in California to DC. One way. With absolutely no time accounted for bathroom breaks, food, or even sleep. It's like a three day drive each way. That's basically a worst case scenario, but also, a ton of people live on the west coast, so it's not exactly an uncommon one. Unfortunately, the sheer geographical scale of the US makes it very difficult for people to amass specifically in DC.

You're 100% right, though, that anyone who can do it should do it.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

In this specific case? We've spent the last two decades watching overly broad anti terrorism laws get passed under the implicit agreement they wouldn't be abused. Then comes Trump. Americans have been asleep at the wheel since the 1970's. That's part of why right wing rhetoric keeps getting more extreme. They need to keep their voting base engaged. Most people don't want anything to do with politics. If that doesn't change then no amount of reform will prevent us from voting ourselves out of a democracy.

[–] Buske@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

Because the entire group, all the leaders, are pedo's. they have all been to that island, Now the island is America.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Because more Americans are either fully on board and support this, or don't give enough of a shit to care compared to those who oppose this behavior., and piss and moan every day about how "tHiS iS nOt wHo wE ArE"

Trump is literally America's spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America's mirror.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.

Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they'd probably find some other one. But he's too convenient.

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[–] FarmTaco@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

the opposition cares more about their job/permanent meal ticket and lobbying money than actually opposing, these are problems for peasants like you and me, not chuck schumer and tammy baldwin.

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

At some point, some country will need to send a task force to El Salvador to liberate people from the concentration camp there.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, see, you are already dreaming of that other American thing.

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Disgusting. If they do this, we are actually living in a fascist state. Stripping citizenship from your political opponents? This is insane.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

THAT's the trigger point where you will accept that you live in a fascist country?? Have you been asleep since january?

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Long story short is that America has literally been going through "First they came for ..." for months now.

I can already see the headlines from later this year and the next, about how "no one could see it coming" and "why didn't anyone warn me(better)". You can actually just go to communities making fun of pro-brexit folk and see the same quotes from them afterwards.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 15 points 23 hours ago

Months. Did you somehow miss black lives matter? The rapid growth of the prison industrial complex? This is just the explosive conclusion to a pattern that was well underway long before Trump.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they do this, it is further confirmation that we are actually living in a fascist state.

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[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 64 points 1 day ago

We are already living in a fascist state.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We better start preparing for a stronger resistance now while we still can.

  1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
  2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment's income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
  3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

Union Suggestions:

  1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany's success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I might be a downer but T still has many supporters/apologists. I believe that things will start to change only when those people become vocal against him. Until that happens resistors will start populating the camps next to the “illegals”.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

A lack of resistance now will only guarantee a quick decent into Russian style authoritarianism. We resist now, or wait years or potentially decades for it to crumble and break.

The 50501 resistance movements have already shown us that there are millions who will openly resist. The military parade showed hundreds of slouched out of step soldiers, who would only do so if they disapproved. Trump only barely won the election.

Does he have supporters still? Of course, a wide amount of brainwashed people are were caught in that trap, and it will take a great deal of hardship for them to come out of that cult.

But just as many are not. Just as many are awake to what is happening. It may decent into civil war, and I think it'd prudent to be ready for that possibility, but hopefully it won't come to that.

But don't wait for a mass movement to make it safe for you to stand up, or you may never stand up.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 207 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You only threaten those you're afraid of.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

100% the question becomes will t be able to deport him? If not, this will be the start of a losing streak for t because people will see that he blinked and more people, who will be able to make actual change, will rise up. I believe that this is a key moment.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

"Terrorism" as in "Taxing the rich"?

[–] UlyssesOnlyOnce@lemmy.coffee 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its a good thing Democratic leadership has condemned this. They obviously don't like the man and see him as a threat, but Trump's actions are far worse. They did stand up for him right? Right?

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

They probably wrote a strong letter

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago

They stand up for him in the most feeble, token way, once they're sure it won't affect the outcome. Then they'll regretfully run Cuomo.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 127 points 1 day ago (37 children)

Hey USA, you guys ok down there?

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 147 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Naw man, we’re pretty fucking far from ok

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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

If deporting him turns out not to work, perhaps admitting to psychiatry because of Trump Derangement Syndrom would?

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I think they have Mamdani derangment syndrome.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Human MAGAs should all inject bleach. It's good for you. I heard it on Fox News.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is a sad possibility and if it happens we need to take action and be in the streets and outside the White House.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

When opposition politicians start disappearing, that's your last chance to get your gun and take back the power by force. Once opposition is eliminated, you're shit out of luck.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago
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