410
The man, who supported President Donald Trump though he can't vote, says he "feels differently" now and blames the administration for his immigration plight.
“No, don’t hurt me, hurt those other people!”
Dude isn't allowed to vote for legalization of marijuana, because he got caught possessing marijuana. Now I'm not sure how democracy is supposed to work, but I'm fairly certain he's supposed to be able to vote for representatives in a Democratic Republic to legalize such.
Freedont
∆Edit: The way the lowerase n&t look like a broken m is pretty cool. Accidental yet pleasant
Dude isn’t allowed to vote for legalization of marijuana, because he got caught possessing marijuana.
Just to clarify, he's not able to vote because he's a Canadian citizen and not because of his past convictions.
Wait the guy has lived here since 3 years old on a green card and never became a full citizen somehow? The guy has 5 kids and has lived here legally for 43 years (assumably). The fact that he isn't automatically naturalized is rediculous.
The times, they are a-changing
I assume you mean those dastardly brown people. Down with the brown! /s
As a Canadian citizen, he couldn’t vote for president, but he supported Donald Trump.
“I was definitely all for ‘Make America Great Again,’ and having a strong, unified country, and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently,” he said. “I’ve been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.”
And here I was afraid there was no justice left in the world. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
no no sir, those are not your American children. those are you illegal children whom will be deported soon.
thanks dismantling of birthright citizenship!
I still haven't wrapped my head around this one. Wasn't birthright enshrined in the constitution? How can it be dismantled?
So is the separation of church and state.
And the right against unreasonable search and seizures.
But it turns out writing it down doesn't make it so. It's not a fundamental law of the universe. It has to actually be upheld and defended for it to do anything. Until the American people do something they'll just keep walking all over it.
The difference is that citizenship is about papers. It's a law about law. So how are they circumventing it to pull citizenship from people? Operationally, how is it done.
If you show the person at the border your paper, and they still won't let you in, it doesn't matter that you have the paper. It is just that simple. It's illegal, but when the people who are supposed to be enforcing the laws are the ones breaking them, there isn't any real recourse short of a popular uprising.
Because they do what ever they want… it takes years to appeal a single case so they are just steamrolling hundreds and hundreds….
(And the Supreme Court simply takes a red pen to change whatever they want… )
Again, how? You can't take someone's citizenship away if not through court, right? What excuses are judges using to do that?
That’s the neat part… ICE doesn’t even have to go through a judge to deport someone. They can just kinda do it… and it’s been an issue for YEARS. Only now they were allowed to go into overdrive, completely unchecked.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-deport-us-citizens/
So they don’t have to strip citizenship, they just send people to other countries and move on with their day. Then the courts are so swamped with appeals that it’s likely most will just give up and make a new life in the other country.
Mental! Thanks for the answer.
Say they're a danger to the the nation,.deport them to Somalia etal. Don't need.due.process any more.
They have some nutty interpretation that when the amendment was written the writers didn't mean for it to apply to everyone. Basically it's something like the children of noncitizens owe allegiance to the country of their parents, so they don't count. The bit they're trying to use is what prevents e.g. children of diplomats from gaining citizenship.
Thank you for actually answering my question.
maga has infected the minds of canadians, probably albertans.
MAGA has infected the minds of people all around the world, and this is happening for over a decade now.
seems like a traitor to canada.
No, not me! I voted for Trump. I'm white! I'm whiiiiitttteeeee!
Landry says he goes to Canada at least once a year and has never had a problem until now.
What's different this year? Say it Landry. Say it.
There are woke policies this year that's why
Nope, today, he's brown.
In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license, but he says he’s had no criminal record since then.
Hoo-boy, sounds like he was asking for it, one of them criminals I keep hearing about. Thin blue line, right folks?
He was clearly an unacceptable danger to society with that kind of record! After all, people who broke laws once, forfeit all their rights, right?
/s In case someone wants to take my crown.
You sir, are not the world’s dumbest man. I doubt I am either, but I would bet I’m dumber than you.
We should fight about it.
Paper-scizzors?
I choose paper! Let's see what you pick!
When asked about it he said, "I thought we were only going to oppress brown people. I'm white. This is completely unacceptable."
On the bright side, that's at least one fewer MAGAts in the country.
Unfortunately, he came back home, and now we're stuck with him.
^goddammit^
This is exactly what he wanted, but too stupid to realize it.
🎵 O Canada, take back your MAGA lad 🎵
His understanding is under sized
Please ban him everywhere, both far and wide
"Oh yea? If you liked US so much why'd u leave huh?????"
Wah wah wah
I'll call your Wah-wah, and raise it with a Womp-womp!
Lucky him.
Would be hilarious if his absolutely "heinous crime" was an unpaid parking ticket from 20 years ago. Can't just have those people wandering around breathing US freedom air.
it was weed i think.
Most parking tickets aren't crimes. They're something even less serious: civil infractions. Which makes it even funnier ... all those people who stole candy bars or got in bar fights, for example, they're the real criminals.
Canada is almost as right-wing as their neighbour.
I'm sure he can find many likeminded people there.
"whatabout" something that has nothing to do with the story.
Not a whatabout.
load more comments
(1 replies)
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
410 points (98.3% liked)
Leopards Ate My Face
7398 readers
9 users here now
Rules:
- The mods are fallible; if you've been banned or had a post/comment removed, please appeal.
- Off-topic posts will be removed. If you don't know what "Leopards ate my Face" is, try reading this post.
- If the reason your post meets Rule 1 isn't in the source, you must add a source in the post body (not the comments) to explain this.
- Posts should use high-quality sources, and posts about an article should have the same headline as that article. You may edit your post if the source changes the headline. For a rough idea, check out this list.
- For accessibility reasons, an image of text must either have alt text or a transcription in the post body.
- Reposts within 1 year or the Top 100 of all time are subject to removal.
- This is not exclusively a US politics community. You're encouraged to post stories about anyone from any place in the world at any point in history as long as you meet the other rules.
- All Lemmy.World Terms of Service apply.
Also feel free to check out [email protected] (also active).
Icon credit C. Brück on Wikimedia Commons.
_portrait.jpg){kind=link}
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS