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Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by btilly on Monday October 08, 2018 @04:29PM (#18171011)
But the current administration is working to make citizenship revocable.

I firmly believe that the current administration would love to change the rules on citizenship. However the 14th amendment is extremely clear on this, and the courts have consistently ruled for decades that Congress and the President do not have the right to change the laws to strip citizenship from people. (This was extensively litigated over laws against dual citizenship.)

Therefore it is no more reasonable to fear the current administration making citizenship revocable than to fear the previous administration taking all the guns away.

Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by d1zzy on Monday October 08, 2018 @06:41PM (#18171947)
I would say that it heavily depends on the current justices in the supreme court. With the current court composition I wouldn't say that both of those issues have equal risk of being revoked.
Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by btilly on Monday October 08, 2018 @07:55PM (#18172304)
The current court makes this one pretty safe.

The most recent decision relevant to this topic was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslenjak_v._United_States in 2017. It was a 9-0 decision that a naturalized citizen who had made minor errors of fact in their citizenship declaration couldn't have their citizenship stripped because of that.

Between stare decisis and how solidly the court has been in protecting citizenship, this principle is not in any sort of trouble any time soon.

Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by zaptheimpaler on Monday October 08, 2018 @08:25PM (#18172419)
The US has a history of stripping people of their citizenship when things get bad, regardless of what the law says. It has happened before with Mexicans, it is happening again right now [1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/8/30/17800410/trump-passport-birth-...

Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by btilly on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:06PM (#18177731)
That is not "regardless of the law". That is "when it can be argued that the law does not apply".

The law itself is solid. Whether a particular person with paperwork issues will be given the presumption of the facts being in their favor is another story.

Re:H-1B: As immigration furor roils Silicon Valley, Canada s... by zaptheimpaler on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:37AM (#18183575)
My point is the law is not nearly as clear cut and black and white as you make it out to be. It provides a lot of room for judgement and interpretation by those carrying it out in most cases. And unless a particular matter comes up before a court, "when it can be argued that the law does not apply" does not happen either - the immigration officer makes a decision and 99% of immigrants do not have the resources to fight it in a court. Believe me, neither your average CBP officer nor your average immigrant is very well versed in the minutiae of the law.

The end result is people can and do lose their citizenship status pretty often. Debating whether it is strictly unlawful is really besides the point.