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We’re already significantly short on judges. Requiring judges in triplicate would have some crazy side effects. Court cases currently take too long to resolve due to the shortage. The entire system would grind to a literal standstill.

Yeah, while I understand and agree with the sentiment… If you have 300 people and on average somebody gets sick once a year for 2 days… You’re going to have to hit some lotto style stats that they all don’t lineup together to get a clear day of 100% attendance. Now realize that normal is 2-4 times a year… not just once. It’s hard to corral that many people and get them all in on the same day available without some sort of conflict, sick days alone. Forget all the other stuff, birthdays, births, funerals, etc…

The USA is also significantly bigger than every single one of those “comparable” countries. Actually bigger (population, size, really just about any size metric possible) than all of them combined. It’s a bit disingenuous to clump all of the USA together. Which fuels and proves my point about outsiders not understanding the USA.

The range in “comparable” countries is also about 4 years… Why do you think that is? I mean the countries are basically right next to each other like states are here… yet for some reason despite sharing a border Switzerland and Germany have a 4.1 year difference in male life expectancy.

I’m willing to bet money that different parts of the US, possibly even on a state by state or even region by region location would have wildly varying life expectancy than is being insinuated with a single monolithic number for “the USA”… Just like the EU countries listed here…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy

Turns out that is wildly true… The top 30 states all compete with the numbers given and fall within the ranges between Germany and Switzerland given in the charts in your link.

Edit:

If you drill down to counties… which is at the very bottom of the wiki article. You can see even more disparity. And the only reason I bring this up is that some counties in the USA are bigger than entire as countries in the EU. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-counties-in-the-united-states-by-total-area.html

There is issues with getting infrastructure EVERYWHERE when the country is just so damn big and sparse.

Edit2: I should clarify that I don’t doubt that the EU overall is better off… Mostly because being fat is a huge problem in the USA that is much less prevalent than the EU overall. But just clumping shit willy nilly is exactly what I was referencing… Mississippi vs California is a world of difference.

Most Europeans have a poor understanding of what the USA looks like as well… Turns out that most people have no idea what most of the rest of the world looks like! This could even mean inside of their own country! The USA is quite large and very much varied.

Instead of teaching the subject in class and then assign practice for home, we should be learn the subject at home and so the practice in class.

Then you get students who get mad because they’re “teaching themselves”. Not realizing at all that the teacher curated what they’re reading/doing and is an SME that’s available to them when they’re completely lost.

I currently live in the US… so it’s not directly come up for me. But it’s something I’ve been looking into here and there because I am interested in buying property and working in my other country. Part of that is driven by my desire to interact with the majority of my family more.

My understanding is that there are firms that do it. It’s the same process as most other taxes though except you can claim a couple other forms and need to declare a few additional items. I tend to do my own taxes now and get by just fine, a couple extra forms I’d likely just hire a firm to do them 1 or 2 times and use that as reference for the future personally. Taxes in general is pretty easy for most people as long as you have a reference/guide and don’t do weird stuff IMO.

For renouncement I think you only have to show that you’ve filed taxes for the past 5 years… and as long as you’re not some uber wealthy person there isn’t an expat cost (I think it’s like 800k on all assets? or something like that). The fee was something like $2k as well. It’s not a crazy hard process to my understanding, but I could be missing a part.

This isn’t quite true. You pay the difference of whatever local tax would cover. And foreign earned income exclusion is massive…(https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-earned-income-exclusion)… So even if you make 200k, you can exclude ~120k of it, and then the remaining 80k would have your local taxes deducted from it as well. You end up finding out that most people pay virtually nothing.

And if you don’t intend on returning to the USA at all, there’s not a lot of enforcement that can happen. The worst effect is that you can’t renew your passport at a consulate from what I’ve seen.

I’m a dual citizen so I end up researching these weird topics a lot…

There are. You have to apply for them. Which it’s also entirely possible that the mother is currently doing.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781.1.0.pdf
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781/gov.uscourts.lawd.210781.6.0_3.pdf

Indeed. If you read the actual response… no deportation occurred for the 2 year old.

From the petitioner’s council:

The officer overheard and said that V.M.L. would not be deported and explained that V.M.L.’s mother and sister had deportation orders.

From ICE:

Should her mother decide to allow Petitioner Mack and the purported father to take custody of V.M.L., V.M.L. is not prohibited from entering the United States.

The claim is that the father didn’t identify himself (likely because of his own immigration status), so they couldn’t release child to him. Since he didn’t want to identify himself, any claim that the mother wanted to take the child with her must be held, no “friend” can take custody at that point. The only identified parent isn’t consenting.

It looks like there was an exhibit referenced in the ICE response document. That exhibit is likely the letter they reference that the mother wrote.

It’s a shit situation… It’s not good in the slightest, but it isn’t “American Citizen deported”.

Mother can easily state that she would like to give custody to the petitioning “friend” and V.M.L. can return.

Okay? So where are you telling the top commenter that having soft power with a ceremonial monarchy is pointless?

Why is everyone getting up and arms like it matters if they have no actual power?

So I refute one specific point of your argument. Another commenter even says they were outright denied. And your sane and rational response is “well that doesn’t matter” and you downvote me even though I was adding to the topic/discussion that you brought up?

Grow up dude.

Unfortunately for your case, you’re still wrong. But that won’t change your mind regardless and I’m not interested in talking to someone who acts the way you are.

I’m a snipped man… there were a lot of questions.

I don’t know who told you “no questions asked”, but that definitely doesn’t match my lived experience.

But if you want keep licking boots, you might just get to the center. I won’t stop you.

WAAHHHH I have nothing to say so I’ll talk about boots!

I’m not sure why so many people have a foot fetish on the fediverse. It’s kind of sad.

I dunno. I’m strongly a “home is where you make it” sort of thing. I couldn’t care less where I was specifically born. But to each their own I suppose.

No pledging required. I hold 2 citizenships by birth.

Edit: Weird to live somewhere for nearly half a century and not “feel” that it’s yours… Why not just go back “home”?

Nothing odd about it. An Irish passport is measurably better than an American one.

You don’t give up an Irish one to get an American one.

Source: Am dual citizen with 2 passports.

Other than distance traveled, the time afforded to travel said distance, and providing the requisite documents needed to cross a border(which she had)

So then not the same at all? And we know she didn’t have all the documents she needed because she had to go get some.

It says in the article that she presented them with documentation of the expungement of her charges.

That would have been a month after the initial detainment. That’s why she had to leave to go get the documents. She didn’t have it with her at the initial detainment. That’s my point. She likely filled out some form incorrectly which didn’t match up with what their database says. And now they are detaining her until it’s cleared up by a court. It sucks, sure… but this is how it goes.

So leaving a town to you is equivalent to the travel it takes to leave the country? You don’t see significant differences between the two? Then I can’t communicate with you on that particular point. We will not come to any consensus there. Especially when you say “I never equated hometown and country. I merely used it as a metaphor” I never did… but did. Your two sentences directly contradict.

Did she ever have a warrant out for her arrest during those times that she left the country? No.

How do you know this? She thought her stuff was expunged. Which clearly it wasn’t since apparently they pulled it up. If it’s still in the records somewhere… or she reported it to them inaccurately. That’s inconsistent information and I would expect agents to investigate.

their hometown

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Literally history of leaving the country regularly.

I’m just going to quote this until you read it apparently. Somehow “hometown” = “Country” to you.

No shit Sherlock.

A person in law enforcement custody who is considered likely to abscond

People who travel regularly are more likely to abscond than someone who doesn’t travel at all… Why do I have to explain something so simple?

Literally history of leaving the country regularly.

I even noted that specifically.