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“Homegrowns” means US born children of immigrants [1]
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Date: 2025-04-17
Trump’s threat to deport “homegrown” people is not just an odd turn of phrase—not a malaprop. It’s deliberate.
It serves as the next step in his attack on birthright citizenship. Consider government agents seizing and deporting US born people whose parents are or were undocumented. The Trump DHS could start with, perhaps, unsympathetic persons accused of crimes— perhaps even violent crimes. This sets up the perception that it’s only a small step and not of concern to Americans whose parents were citizens.
Both the political framing and the context of any litigation would be changed— making the slide to totalitarianism easier—and even presenting courts and Congress with a different calculus than the bald Executive Orders already struck down. It’s a plan.
”Homegrown” means he’s starting with First generation citizens…by essentially reframing citizenship…. And probably starting with persons of color as the initial targets but not stopping there.
(And, of course, none of this should matter because the Constitution protects “persons”— but this is part of the whole strategy)!
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