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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion, but Trump's transition team and ultimately cabinet, seems rife with conflicts of ignorance. The Intercept reports that:
Palantir Technologies, the data mining company co-founded by billionaire and Trump transition advisor Peter Thiel, will likely assist the Trump Administration in its efforts to track and collect intelligence on immigrants, according to a review of public records by The Intercept. Since 2011, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has paid Palantir tens of millions of dollars to help construct and operate a complex intelligence system called FALCON, which allows ICE to store, search, and analyze troves of data that include family relationships, employment information, immigration history, criminal records, and home and work addresses.
I guess this is what happens when you elect a businessman to political office: they run it like a business.
Working closely with a President-elect who has pledged to dramatically expand ICE, Thiel's varied connections to the immigration agency place him in a position to potentially benefit financially from a deportation campaign that carries highly personal stakes for millions of Americans.
They always say: you have nothing to worry about, if you have nothing to hide.
Palantir, which is backed by the CIA's venture capital arm, did not respond to a request for comment regarding its ICE contracts and concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Peter Thiel spokesperson Jeremiah Hall declined to comment on a list of emailed queries, including a question asking whether Thiel has yet signed the Trump transition ethics agreement.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday December 14 2016, @05:45PM
Ok, lets see. You turn on CNN and discover war has broke out between America and your home country. Which army do you enlist into? See the problem yet? We see this with a majority of newly minted "citizens" who retain split loyalty. The fact we have lived in peace (mostly) for a couple of generations has caused too many people to be lulled into a belief that will always be so. We might have a 'special relationship' with the UK but it hasn't stopped us shooting at each other several times, including burning down our capital, and there is no promise we won't squabble with gunplay again. And if we can get into a shooting war with the UK we could get into a fight with just about anybody.
Birthright citizenship as an absolute right was an invention of the courts and not even in a straight up decision; they did it sneaky. Constitutional scholars with impeccable strict constructionist track records say there is a strong enough case that Congress could merely clarify the "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" words of the 14th and end this problem without needing an Amendment that we should start there.
The problem is the child of two illegal Mexicans who happen to be in the U.S. at the time of birth is lawfully a citizen of Mexico, a claim our laws recognize. Dual citizenship is a bad idea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 14 2016, @05:50PM
Ok, lets see. You turn on CNN and discover war has broke out between America and your home country.
Yeah, yeah, if you remember, this is what Teddy Roosevelt kept going on about when he started to go senile, those darn "hyphenated Americans"! Germans, like Drumpf, who only came to America to avoid serving "their" country in the Great War! Not the mention those "jmorris-Americans": we can never know whether they will put country, or wackadoodle conservative ideology first!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday December 14 2016, @06:05PM
Dual citizenship is a bad idea.
Why are the people most o'reillyed up about immigration are the most ignorant about American law? Dual citizenship is the standard position, for minors who could qualify for citizenship in more than one country. And, Israelis. But it ceases when the person reaches majority, and has to choose. Again, except for Israelis. And why would dual citizenship be a bad idea? As long as both countries are nations of social justice, there should be no warrioring between them. It is only extreme and paranoid nations, like America, that prohibit dual citizenship.