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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano ✶✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: NYT: Biden Border Disaster
Date: 12/08/25 5:50 PM
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What's next? Revoking the citizenship of people from those countries who have already been naturalized, just because of the country they came from?

It could happen to me if they revoked my Dad's citizenship posthumously. I'd be fine and dandy in Portugal or the south of France as long as I'm not stripped of my assets as my family was by the German Nazis.

Raul Malo (The Mavericks) got a lotta flak for discussing that July 4.
https://www.themavericksband.com/about

"The words ‘liberty and justice for all’ have faded into a distant past, To some of us those words were deeply personal. My family came here <Cuba> because of those words. I was born here because of those words. I have had an extraordinary life because of those words. And now those words have lost their meaning. They are now abstract concepts used to inflict cruelty and suffering on the unsuspecting, the weak, the sick, the poor, the needy. We can add Purple Heart war veterans to that list as several have been deported already. This is America right now.

Some will tell me that I should leave the country or my favorite ‘shut up and sing (A statement so void of any sense that it is impossible to execute). On the ‘leaving’ part … that may come true whether I want to leave or not. The way the new law stands my mother could be stripped of her naturalized citizenship, then my sister and I would be illegal birthright citizens and away we go. As far as ‘shut up and sing’ well, clearly that’s not happening. You see the thing is this is my country too. Always has been. My country has been that beacon on the hill for so long and for so many.

As Lady Liberty’s flame dims with every atrocity committed in her name, we will not be afraid of the dark. We will find the light again.

Think about the words that we’re supposed to live by … The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, our Bill of Rights.
Think about the food you’re eating. Who harvested the corn? Who picked the strawberries? Who raised the beef for this feast? How did the apples end up in this pie? Who built this beautiful house with the beautiful deck that your family is enjoying today? Think about it. This isn’t about politics anymore. It’s about humanity. It’s about all of us. We, the people.”
YouTube: The Mavericks: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music)
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