RT Curse (@encoresalad)That anyone is welcome in the US if they pay taxes is so violently reductive, it makes US citizenship indistinguishable from a gym membership. Anyone can be American if they pay a membership fee to the government in the form of taxes. This is why there are at least five or six "Americas" within the geographic boundaries of the United States - we have nothing in common with each other except that we all pay taxes. We're merely an arbitrary grouping of people whose only bond is that we ...

RT JD™ (@LostMyHats)Israel is one of the most closed nations on earth, and it their religious ethno-state make no attempt to pretend otherwise. Consider the difference between the U.S. policy Shapiro is advocating for and that of Israel:Non-Jewish workers cannot bring families, cannot become citizens, cannot integrate, cannot naturalize, and are removed when their contracts end. Even long-term foreign caregivers who spend a decade in Israeli homes are still treated as rotating labor rather than future resid ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In the minds of the corporate America-last crowd -- businessmen, ex-hippies, or both -- there aren't even any such people as Americans. (Except for a conveniently tiny minority most of them have never even met). Citizenship, community, family, roots are all irrelevant -- we are all just equally foreigners: mutually foreign inputs to be paid cheap wages, consumed, and spit out by their big business machines. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In the minds of the corporate America-last crowd -- businessmen, ex-hippies, or both -- there aren't even any such people as Americans. (Except for a conveniently tiny minority most of them have never even met). Citizenship, community, family, roots are all irrelevant -- we are all just equally foreigners: mutually foreign inputs to be paid cheap wages, consumed, and spit out by their big business machines. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In the minds of the corporate America-last crowd -- businessmen, ex-hippies, or both -- there aren't even any such people as Americans. (Except for a conveniently tiny minority most of them have never even met). Citizenship, community, family, roots are all irrelevant -- we are all just equally foreigners: mutually foreign inputs to be paid cheap wages, consumed, and spit out by their big business machines. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In the minds of the corporate America-last crowd -- businessmen, ex-hippies, or both -- there aren't even any such people as Americans. (Except for a conveniently tiny minority most of them have never even met). Citizenship, community, family, roots are all irrelevant -- we are all just equally foreigners: mutually foreign inputs to be paid cheap wages, consumed, and spit out by their big business machines. ...

In the minds of the corporate America-last crowd -- businessmen, ex-hippies, or both -- there aren't even any such people as Americans. (Except for a conveniently tiny minority most of them have never even met). Citizenship, community, family, roots are all irrelevant -- we are all just equally foreigners: mutually foreign inputs to be paid cheap wages, consumed, and spit out by their big business machines.Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii):Our entire population other than American Indians are foreigners. ...

RT Sólionath (@Anarseldain)Both of Vivek’s parents were here on temporary visas when he was born, his mother didn’t receive citizenship until years later, and his father actively refuses to become an American citizen, even after living here for over 40 years.Vivek is an anchor-baby. ...

It’s crazy not to require proof of citizenship to vote in any country’s electionThe Rabbit Hole (@TheRabbitHole84):Americans want proof of citizenship for voter registration https://t.co/coPtWbacg5 ...

RT E.H. Hail (@Hail__To_You)For most of U.S. history, J. D. Vance’s wife -- Usha Chilukuri, Hindu -- would have been ineligible for U.S. citizenship.She'd have classified under the legal category "alien ineligible for naturalization."Such situation held through the 1940s. ...