cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46890078
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/216477
ICE said the Canadian was found unresponsive Monday at the Federal Detention Center in Miami and was attended to by medical staff, but was pronounced dead the same day.
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Well, yeah but he probably just got here…
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37 years ago
Yeah, at that point, he was more American than Canadian. The US government should have to explain either why he wasn’t granted citizenship or else why he wasn’t deported. Keeping people in citizenship limbo is just diet slavery, a disposable workforce. I get that’s probably the whole point and has been for a while, but I also think it’s good to call it out until enough people care to make a change.
FYI, Citizenship is not automatic. I think the reason why Citizenship isn’t automatic is because of the oath of allegiance. Its symbolic, but many countries take these procedures very seriously for some reason. I think it’s that, from the PoV of Governments (not just the US Government), and I’m not saying that I agree with this view, but Governments think that “If you really wanted to stay, you would’ve applied for citizenship as early as possible”. They (Governments around the world) want you to affirmatively choose to become a citizen, not just passively gain citizenship by waiting out a timer.
He should’ve applied for citizenship the moment the 5-year timer came up. Actualy its 4 years and 6 months and you could pre-emptively file and they’ll immediately process it at the 5 year mark. Not filing for citizenship is a very bad idea, no matter which country you are in the world. He was in the US for so long, he should’ve applied. (But then again, even with Citizenship, its still not exactly safe either with the all the autocratization going on)
I think that there should be a law that make it so that once someone becomes eligible for citizenship, they should be in a sepatate category of permanent residents, a sort of protected status against deportation for like basically anything except for serious offenses like mass murders or like a Jan 6 Insurrection type of thing.
37 Canadian Years or US Years?
Ironically enough he was arrested in Florida which is far enough away there’s likely a real difference over that long of time.
Like “real” as in there is a difference. Not that it is in anyway significant.
I googled and apparently in the ~14 billion years we think the universe has existed, the north pole has experienced about four more days of time than the equator.
So like 37 American years or 37.000000000000000000000001 Canadian years.
I’m assuming American.
I really wasn’t expecting real answer but this is probably the most perfect response I’ve ever seen
Eh, that’s over the estimated life of the universe.
Our solar system is likely a third that age.
It was just the first example I got when googling it, and I didn’t want to break it down and convert it to make it more accurate.
Even then, pole reversal are common (speaking of, were like 100k years overdue and inexplicable shit is going on under the antarctic right now…) so even over the life of the Earth you’d have to keep teleporting to each new North Pole.
But it’s a good example of relativity.
Well, given the dwindling life expectancy of Americans, 37 Canadian years is probably somewhere over 40 American.
37 American years or ~50 Canadian plus HST