I've read of cases where US citizens of foreign parents with US citizenship have been deported by the Trump administration back to their "country of origin", even though they may have never set foot there and don't even speak the language. Now they're stateless and destitute.
Eg:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/jamaica-deportation-migrant-ice-us
Guy was born on a US army base in Germany to a US citizen of Jamaican origin who served in the US military for around 15 years (talk about being rewarded for risking your life for your country and serving it). Now he's officially stateless and homeless in Jamaica (because he can't legally work there), a country he'd apparently never even been to. He doesn't even speak the language (Jamaican Patwah).
He grew up his whole life in the US and has been treated like some foreign criminal, and can't see his own family. The only thing he can do now is possibly apply for Jamaican citizenship through his late father, but who knows when he'll see his family and kids again (if ever). Stay classy. It's not like he turned up on a boat from Jamaica a few years ago. He's American ffs. Ripping US citizens potentially permanently from their own children is totally American, right?
Yes, he was in prison a few times, so he's a "bad" person, I guess. But don't US citizens (even criminals) get the right to at least be sent to US prisons rather than deported "back" to countries they have no real practical or cultural connection to?
Stay classy, Trumpland. The world is watching, btw. Don't think we aren't or will forget this stuff. We're not super impressed. At the very least, it's a bit shameful. And not exactly "Christian". You're really bringing your entire country into disrepute and the rest of the world is taking note. The US is not the democratic nation we once thought it was. And Europe is slowly regrouping because they realize they can't rely on you as an ally. I hope you're happy about that. You're in danger of becoming a pariah.
What if Ivana is found to have committed a crime? Or Musk? Shall we deport them back to where they "came from" too? I'm not even sure Musk immigrated legally anyway. But he is (or was) the richest person on earth, so who cares? He can basically buy a passport to anywhere anyway.
So yes, Trump is arguably acting a bit like a dictator, sorry. This is the kind of thing you expect from "third-world" despotic regimes that don't GAF about human rights, not the "Land of the free". No offence.
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