Comments on: Unmigration Manifesto

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:08:53 +0000

Your manifesto is too simple because it ignores legal residents who are becoming citizens through military service. If they’ve shed their blood or risked it – and anyone who joins has made the decision to risk it – you have an obligation to go through with your side of the deal.

http://www.ptsdsupport.net/becoming_american.html

There is a much weaker obligation towards those in the legal immigration pipeline and who in many cases have been jumping through hoops for the government for years.

You can certainly say, nobody not already in the pipeline can get in.

You can ignore the weak obligation.

You can’t ignore the strong obligation.

– Daybreaker

By: Tanstaafl

Tanstaafl — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:26:00 +0000

That's one of many outrageous inversions in the status quo. But in keeping with the spirit of this manifesto we can add:

The children of citizens born outside our borders are not citizens. If your country and citizenship are important to you then live and have your children here.

By: Avalanche

Avalanche — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:09:00 +0000

I wish it were funny -- but do you know the "obverse" of anchor babies? Children of American citizens born overseas (as was a friend whose parents were civil servants working for the military in Germany). She had to file paperwork to "become" a legal American citizen when she reached age 18. Her parents moved her back to *their* country (America) when she was 6 or so; and her status as a citizen was not 'clear' until/unless she filled out the paperwork (and maybe take an oath of loyatly, I don't remember)..

(Dunno if that is still the case, but it was years ago.)

Avalanche

By: flippityflopitty

flippityflopitty — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 05:07:00 +0000

Leadership becoming administrators is symptomatic of globalization. The political leadership has yielded so much power on behalf of a corporatist manifesto and globalization they have been relegated to administrators.

As much as I used to believe globalization was an achievable goal, it is obvious the hurdles and land mines will undo any significant strides. We've become a nation of outsourcing and in-sourcing to reduce labor costs - all rubber-stamped by a failing, short-sighted leadership.

"... fix it through leadership" was an understatement (gross understatement).

By: Chell

Chell — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:16:00 +0000

Katrina, I’ve never understood why children aren’t considered citizens of the same country as their parents. It’s too easy to have “anchor babies” in order to gain legal residency or citizenship in the US, and we even pay the related bills and then some. To the last part of your question, where children of illegal aliens are removed from their parents, I think the parent’s country ought to decide how they will best care for the children.