From 1907 to 1922, any American woman who married a foreign man had her citizenship stripped from her. - ThreadSky

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social • 109 days ago

From 1907 to 1922, any American woman who married a foreign man had her citizenship stripped from her.

The US has stripped people's citizenship before. See

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A really good book on this is Bredbenner’s A Nationality of Her Own. Changed my thinking in immigration when I read it 20 years ago.

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/a-nationality-of-her-own/paper

uriburimon.bsky.social•108 days ago

📌

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social•108 days ago

Bookmarking it!

stefanloe.bsky.social•109 days ago

😮

maryjoanhawkins.bsky.social•108 days ago

This happened to my grandmother,Ann Koch.

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social•108 days ago

I suspect many families have stories like that.

maryjoanhawkins.bsky.social•108 days ago

M grandfather never became citizen. Just found a World War II letter from my Dad congratulating her on getting citizenship back.

profbanks.bsky.social•109 days ago

Oops. @rustysellsword.bsky.social

rustysellsword.bsky.social•108 days ago

Uh oh

douglasrivlin.bsky.social•109 days ago

My great grandmother was born in Texas, but had to naturalize after marrying my great grand father who was a Canadian-born U.S. university professor. She tried to vote and was denied and had to go through the citizenship process.

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social•109 days ago

Wow. What a discriminatory law.

reichlinmelnick.bsky.social•109 days ago

FWIW, I think that the modern Supreme Court would find the law which created this process to be clearly unconstitutional.

azcatlady.bsky.social•109 days ago

I didn't think the Supreme Court would ever give the POTUS immunity. But it did.

bluenote123.bsky.social•108 days ago

Between the application of the Equal Protection Clause and the rejection of rules like this that were based in coverture, I agree with you.

deflo.bsky.social•109 days ago

Yeah..I don’t have the same optimism

tinmanbs.bsky.social•108 days ago

Enjoy your fantasy world for as long as you possibly can. It makes the ride much more enjoyable and won't change the ending anyway.

ambeachy.bsky.social•109 days ago

We can hope the majority of the SC would side with our view of the Constitution, but how certain are we?

madkatsmum1.bsky.social•109 days ago

Not very.

ambeachy.bsky.social•109 days ago

Mrs P is here!!’🥳

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