Gov’t screws up, citizens accused

The nasty guy and his minions are becoming well known for their cruelty. Here is, alas, another example. And this one is quite vile.

Way back in March Melissa McEwan of Shakesville, Cassandra that she is, gave a warning back in March. The nasty guy and his minions had already tried the Muslim travel ban (perhaps twice by then). McEwan, always perceptive about what the nasty guy is doing, said that illegal immigration may have been the focus then, but legal immigration would also be a target. The nasty guy and his supremacist buddies don’t like *any* immigration – certainly not after they or their parents arrived.

There is a new Operation Janus run jointly by the Department of Justice and US Citizen and Immigration Services to revoke citizenship of those already naturalized. The process of getting citizenship is long and complicated and requires lots of forms over several years. It is easy (and likely routine) for some little detail to go wrong, such as fingerprints not getting filed the right way, or any one of the myriad steps that overloaded humans along the way must handle. And now the nasty guy’s minions are now saying if the whole process wasn’t perfectly pristine this is evidence that citizenship was obtained fraudulently. And that’s grounds for revoking the citizenship and leaving a person exposed to deportation.

It’s likely that a pristine application process is rare. A lot of people are going to get screwed. Citizens will be blamed when government employees aren’t perfect. Which, McEwan reminds us, according to the minions, that not a bug, that’s a feature.

Commenters remind us that this is the same tactic used to purge voter rolls.

In case you aren’t up on your Greek mythology, Cassandra had the gift of accurate prophecy but cursed so that no one believed her. McEwan has claimed that title because her predictions of the nasty guy have been pretty accurate, yet it seems no one believes her.