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by PhasmaFelis 2369 days ago
> This is not a case of `stripped of citizenship`. India just built detention camps for illegal immigrants in the country.

That's a really disingenuous way of putting it, as I think you know.

Several million people who have lived in India for generations in some cases, who have never been offered or asked for citizenship papers, have suddenly been declared illegal. To prove their citizenship they need to provide documents that were rarely ever created in rural India. This is hardly just sweeping up random migrants.

> The protests that are happening in the eastern part of India is against giving citizenship to illegal immigrants.

That may be true in the east, but the largest and most vocal protests are in the opposite direction.