Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US for 870 days

Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by CamTin on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:14PM (#24370361)

The United States before 1924 for one. Passports and travel documents didn't really exist at all until Napoleonic-ish times and weren't widespread until about WWI.

I personally feel that defining "citizen" in any other way than "people who are currently living here" is a form of apartheid and antithetical to our constitution.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by srtjstjsj on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:35PM (#24370535)

Part of why immigration law is so confusing and contradictory is that the framers of the Constitution had no concept of someone living in a country (with intent to stay) and not being a citizen. Even slaves and women were considered citizens.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by wang_li on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:59PM (#24370705)

They definitely did have an idea of people living here who were not citizens. Thus the Naturalization Act of 1790.

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Re:Daniel Stenberg (curl) has been denied entry to the US fo... by wang_li on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:57PM (#24370697)

Or in 1882 when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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