[mrtesthah]

My reference to number of generations centers around recent guidance from USCIS to de-naturalize citizens based on broadly defined criteria.

The current discourse in this country centers around suspending habeas corpus to mass-deport millions of people. How do you know who's "illegal" without going through judicial process? You look at their race. And in the end, that's always what it's been about.

[kittensmittens]

I don’t agree in general that’s how the system works or how most Americans think. But again that has nothing to do with the OP. I thought you were asking about American culture and I wanted to clarify.

[mrtesthah]

No, a majority of Americans don't think that way. But unfortunately mass deportation was the central platform of the Trump 2024 campaign, and race is now the defacto targeting criteria for ICE.