Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

Move comes after rightwing Republican accuses New York City mayoral candidate of concealing support for ‘terrorism’

The Trump administration has raised the possibility of stripping Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral candidate for New York City, of his US citizenship as part of a crackdown against foreign-born citizens convicted of certain offences.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, appeared to pave the way for an investigation into Mamdani’s status after Andy Ogles, a rightwing Republican representative for Tennessee, called for his citizenship to be revoked on the grounds that he may have concealed his support for “terrorism” during the naturalization process.

Mamdani, 33, who was born in Uganda to ethnic Indian parents, became a US citizen in 2018 and has attracted widespread media attention – and controversy – over his vocal support for Palestinian rights.

  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    This is a sad possibility and if it happens we need to take action and be in the streets and outside the White House.

    • MBech@feddit.dk
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      2 hours ago

      When opposition politicians start disappearing, that’s your last chance to get your gun and take back the power by force. Once opposition is eliminated, you’re shit out of luck.

  • mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    I don’t understand! How does trump have so much over reach and why aren’t the courts stopping him! Why is our government intentionally creating a fascist dictator!

    The president of the United States has always been a public servant who represents the people of our country. He’s not a king among men the Office of the President should not have the ability to strip the citizenship of any individual that’s what immigration courts are for!

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 hours ago

      because the people who rabidly defend the second amendment don’t give a shit, and approve of his racist oligarch bullshit

    • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Trump has started small, piece by piece, bit by bit. He’s gotten away with everything else. So why wouldn’t he get away with this?

      And the people isn’t doing anything about it. So why would he stop? Maybe americans should take a note from Ukraine’s book. You protest outside the capitol and you don’t go home until you get what you want.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      In this specific case? We’ve spent the last two decades watching overly broad anti terrorism laws get passed under the implicit agreement they wouldn’t be abused. Then comes Trump. Americans have been asleep at the wheel since the 1970’s. That’s part of why right wing rhetoric keeps getting more extreme. They need to keep their voting base engaged. Most people don’t want anything to do with politics. If that doesn’t change then no amount of reform will prevent us from voting ourselves out of a democracy.

    • FarmTaco@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      the opposition cares more about their job/permanent meal ticket and lobbying money than actually opposing, these are problems for peasants like you and me, not chuck schumer and tammy baldwin.

    • Buske@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      Because the entire group, all the leaders, are pedo’s. they have all been to that island, Now the island is America.

    • zebidiah@lemmy.ca
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      20 hours ago

      Because more Americans are either fully on board and support this, or don’t give enough of a shit to care compared to those who oppose this behavior., and piss and moan every day about how “tHiS iS nOt wHo wE ArE”

      Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        I don’t believe that. Not the same America that elected Obama. I think Trump’s first term convinced people he wouldn’t be that bad compared to a party that tried to do a “Weekend at Bernie’s” with their candidate. This is a different Trump than we had last time. This one is willing to do every word of what he says. And that caught people by surprise.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.

        Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they’d probably find some other one. But he’s too convenient.

  • j0ester@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Marco Rubio first. POS birthright citizenship. Or let’s deport Ted Cruz. I’m sure Canada will love to have his head on a stick.

  • SpaceShort@feddit.uk
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    22 hours ago

    At some point, some country will need to send a task force to El Salvador to liberate people from the concentration camp there.

  • UlyssesOnlyOnce@lemmy.coffeeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Its a good thing Democratic leadership has condemned this. They obviously don’t like the man and see him as a threat, but Trump’s actions are far worse. They did stand up for him right? Right?

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Honestly? Fucking do it. Piss off millions of people within earshot of DC. Let’s fucking see what happens.

  • MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Disgusting. If they do this, we are actually living in a fascist state. Stripping citizenship from your political opponents? This is insane.

    • Allemaniac@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      THAT’s the trigger point where you will accept that you live in a fascist country?? Have you been asleep since january?

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        24 hours ago

        Long story short is that America has literally been going through “First they came for …” for months now.

        I can already see the headlines from later this year and the next, about how “no one could see it coming” and “why didn’t anyone warn me(better)”. You can actually just go to communities making fun of pro-brexit folk and see the same quotes from them afterwards.

        • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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          23 hours ago

          Months. Did you somehow miss black lives matter? The rapid growth of the prison industrial complex? This is just the explosive conclusion to a pattern that was well underway long before Trump.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 day ago

      We better start preparing for a stronger resistance now while we still can.

      1. find local communities and get involved to make connections
      2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
      3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

      This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

      Union Suggestions:

      1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

      If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

      • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I might be a downer but T still has many supporters/apologists. I believe that things will start to change only when those people become vocal against him. Until that happens resistors will start populating the camps next to the “illegals”.

      • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 day ago

        ASF-IWA:

        We do not seek the conquest of political power, but rather the total abolition of all state functions in the life of society. Hence we reject all parliamentary activity and other collaboration with legislative bodies.

        uhhhh no thanks. they’re never going to actually get anything done

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          1 day ago

          If you’d prefer a more standard union, there’s quite a few to choose from. The United Workers Union looks to be alright.

          An issue with more ‘standard’ unions is that they are often centralized with leaders that can become corporate captured, and thus begin to actually work in the interests of the capital owners to only achieve modest or lackluster gains from negotiations or strikes. They also often don’t have a particular interest in truly changing the status quo, such as working toward building up popular movements to challenge capitalism itself, instead only hoping for a wage increase so they can continue as usual, with a little more breathing room.

          The ASF-IWA doesn’t demand that their members don’t vote in political elections, only that as an entity, they’re more focused on direct-action instead of waiting for permission from a corporate captured system.

          But in the end, joining any union is still a win in my book.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      If they do this, it is further confirmation that we are actually living in a fascist state.