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by JuniperMesos 193 days ago
Yeah, I would rather just abolish the H1-B visa altogether. If someone can, legitimately or otherwise, put together a clean social media presence to get legal residency in country, this still doesn't guarantee that their natural born citizen children won't try to work against the interests of heritage Americans using whatever tools are available a generation from now.
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arunabha 192 days ago
> heritage Americans

I'm curious as to how you'd define a 'heritage' American.

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JuniperMesos 192 days ago
No ties to a foreign country within living memory.
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BigTTYGothGF 192 days ago
When my dad remarried, my stepmother was a citizen of a different country, does that retroactively make me no longer a "heritage American"? If they had had kids, would my hypothetical half-sibling be a "heritage American"? If the answer is "no", would it change anything if I told you they would have been (like me) descended from a long line of US citizens going back to the 1790s?

Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".

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JuniperMesos 192 days ago
> When my dad remarried, my stepmother was a citizen of a different country, does that retroactively make me no longer a "heritage American"? If they had had kids, would my hypothetical half-sibling be a "heritage American"?

No, because of the ties to a foreign country through your stepmother.

> Or actually now that I think about it, my mom, who as a child knew her great-grandma, a Norwegian immigrant, wouldn't count as a "heritage American".

No, although if it's only one great-grandmother among 8 I'm not super worried about your mom being more loyal to Norway than the US. Also realistically Norway today has many of the same issues with culturally-foreign immigrants that the US does, so maybe that wouldn't amount to all that much in the unlikely case that your mom did strongly identify with Norwegian cultural norms.

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ceejayoz 191 days ago
lol you just reinvented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule … but even nastier!
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ceejayoz 192 days ago
What counts as a tie?

The current President is married to a foreign citizen. Does that count?

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