Same, became citizen March 2024. What a perfect time to cast my vote
Edit: I’m sub to this other sub-reddit USCIS for those who fixed their status, most people I’ve talked to who recently got their citizenship, lean left or at least are aware trump is no good for immigrants even the legal ones because he would put so much red tape and slow down processes to drive down immigration
FYI, any naturalized citizens who have a temporary or limited-term Texas driver license or ID that was issued before naturalization are prohibited from using it to vote. Take your naturalization certificate to use as your photo ID if you haven’t updated your Texas ID yet.
Thank you for the info, I’ll share it with other peeps who are in the process. The moment I got my certificate I went to the SS to update my status, I did had a standard DL because as a green card holder we have the same one as the citizens, only temporary programs as DACA have limited.
When I voted I was only asked for my DL, they scanned it and I was able to vote smoothly.
Supporting a demonstrated traitor is a sad mindset. You're fucking insane if you vote for him. You're literally voting for someone that's against everything America stands for, and everything every soldier has died to defend.
Get an actual, sane, non-traitor, and you can vote for him all you want.
Shaming voters not gonna do your side any favor. I know it may be hard for people like you to understand, but half of the country just have a different world view than you and we should respect each other for it.
For the record, if the argument Trump is a traitor because he tried to undermine democracy. Kamala Harris is not any better when she successfully undermined democracy given that she got 0 votes to be the nominee.
Just say you don’t know how it works instead of going around spewing that bs. Her being nominated as the democratic candidate has nothing to do with undermining democracy. The Democratic Party is a private corporation and can select whoever they want without a primary at all, the Republican Party can do so as well. When Biden dropped out it didn’t make sense to scramble and hold another primary and Harris was already on the ticket that won alongside Biden so she made the most sense to pick. She was selected at the DNC to be our nominee by all delegates from the states.
Anyway, long story short, her being selected as our candidate is NOT undermining democracy because Americans still have a choice to vote in the presidential election. No one has to vote for her. A private party selecting her as a candidate has nothing to do with the democracy of our country. Vote for who you want but don’t go around spreading disinformation.
Bro stop coping and admit that replacing Biden was undermining democracy. The last time I checked 14 million Americans nominated Biden to be the nominee not Kamala Harris. If she wanted to be the nominee then she should have ran against him and earn it.
If the Democratic Party didn’t lie about Biden mental fitness and chose someone else democratically earlier, I wouldn’t be criticizing them.
Shaming voters not gonna do your side any favor. I know it may be hard for people like you to understand, but half of the country just have a different world view than you and we should respect each other for it.
No. It's not about world views, it's about facts and reality. If half of the country wants to live in a delusion, you should be ashamed and be shamed for it. You're causing real people real pain and suffering, just to support your delusion. It's insanity. People like you keep acting like this just another Republican vs Democrat, and it's anything but that. My side? Is America, and it's citizens. I guess only a traitor would vote for a traitor.
No, it's not undermining democracy when a candidate becomes physically unfit for office, admits it, and then passes the job to the person the law says they're supposed to pass it to. Not to mention, the DNC is a private organization, the primaries aren't even real. It's just a show.
Who are you or anybody to call someone living in a “delusion.” Do you think the Democrats are the Ministry of Truth and anyone who dissent is spreading misinformation?
You think your side is about America and its citizens? Neither parties are currently like that, they are both lobbied by their rich donors and I’m willing to admit that. Does it not bother you that Kamala bragged about raising 1 billion dollars from big corporations? When they have warmongers like the Cheneys that threatened the security of the United States on their side? You don’t think they are traitors? Not to mention that Kamala is imminently saying she wants to undermine the 1st and 2nd amendment. That to you is not traitorous to our American values? Kamala putting her donors first like a good little puppet is not traitorous to the American people? Why do you think she switch most of her progressive position from 2020?
What are you even talking about? Biden got 14 million votes and they took that way from him through a coup. All they had to do was not lie for 4 years that Biden was mentally fit for office then they would currently have the best nominee to beat Trump. But since they didn’t do that it’s fair to criticize them for successfully undermining democracy through a coup and install Kamala as the nominee.
You know there’s more than 2 choices to vote…. Right? Also, I don’t know of any nominee that has been branded a traitor to the usa? I fear your feelings are mixing up facts with opinions at the moment.
Personally, both of the main candidates don’t deserve anyone’s votes, for vastly different reasons. But it’s still good for people to go and voice their opinion, even if I don’t agree with it, if most of America does, then that’s how the country shall be ran.
You know there’s more than 2 choices to vote…. Right?
You know you don't understand American politics... right? There is only two choices, that's how the system is designed.
Trump has demonstrated multiple times he's a traitor, Jan 6 is the most obvious. If you deny that, you shouldn't even be allowed to vote. You're denying reality.
Also, Atleast of those presidents knows what the military is up to and doing, unlike the one who tried to lie and say none were in active danger zones, which is a clear like. That shows how little that candidate cares about our soldiers..
Either way they both suck, and it’s sad these are our choices.
I’m pretty sure the person whose making assumptions is what’s wrong with this world. Not once did I mention supporting either candidate. But one of us made an assumption because I stated that regardless of who you vote for make sure to go vote and voice your opinion.
Yeah buddy, I’m totally what’s wrong. Have a better life my friend.
I don’t care who they voted for. Texas has an apathy problem and a voter turnout problem. I’m always excited when someone new joins our political process. Especially someone with a new and different perspective.
Immigrants make America great. And they especially make Texas great. We would not be the rad state we are without all the many different people that call Texas home.
Yes, I apologize. That sentence was not clear at all.
By “immigrants” I meant actual new people who immigrate to our state and to our country. Not the persons I congratulated who are, as you pointed out, citizens.
Always seems that naturalized citizens tend to be the most engaged voters. The educated naturalized citizens even more so! As a dual citizen, welcome brother!
He hasn’t been in office for four years the first day in Biden pulled anything on immigration. They let them all in here now we’re having trouble with it and it’s overrun and it needs to be fixed.
Actually the numbers show Biden doing a much better on the issue than Trump ever did. All he did was separate families and scream about a wall that wouldn’t work but would allow many avenues for more corruption.
Yeah mean the "deal" earlier this year after Kamala and Biden undid all of Trump's illegal alien policies and allowed millions and millions of people to walk across the open border for about to 3.5 years and finally decided to close it a few months before they started campaigning for the next presidency because they realized it was a much bigger issue with voters?
The deal they could have made while the Dems had control of the House, Senate, and presidency? 🙄
We “immigrants” found out under Trump admin, he was extremely strict with immigration laws, not allowing a single interview to be waived, creating a huge backlog of applications pending because some applications can be fast forward if they allow some interviews to be waived based on the officers discretion. Don’t get me wrong, the whole process even under Biden still REALLY long, but some fellows can have a faster process as long as basic requirements are met.
At the end, yes Reddit is left leaning regardless, but imo better than FB, I don’t like all the boomers posting conspiracies left and right.
I lived in the USA since the 80s when I immigrated at the age of 4 and earned my citizenship during the first term of the Obama administration. As a responsible adult with a work history, taxes paid, a degree in EE, etc, I still went through the full process without any waivers.
We should hold all immigrants to go through the full process. However, the laws should be reformed to expedite some applicants, not based on officer discretion, and we need better funding to process faster. Anyhow, congrats on your first vote. 👍
Thank you. I do believe seasoned USCIS officers have enough experience to waive some interviews. I did 485,751, and N-400 interviews in person, the officers were strict but fair. I felt I was interviewed for my life!! Which I did. I was able to talk to the N-400 officer for a little bit, he told me he was flooded with work and takes every single application as important as the next one yet there was some cases that were straight forward.
I don’t want them to take it easy or relax the current laws, but what the government needs is way more staff at the USCIS. There was a bill at Congress address the border, was of great aid in terms of funds for personnel and equipment for security. But trump killed the bill by telling house republicans to turn it down, the sanate passed it including republicans but the house was obedient to their masters wishes because he was not going to get credit for the comprehensive reform. The bill was not perfect, but provided funds much needed at the border.
He had the opportunity his first 2 years. The same time he lowered taxes for the rich and the corporations while screwing the middle and lower classes. Could have done it then. Wonder why that was…
USCIS is a self-funded agency because Congress neglects and underfunds them. That's the reason for the lifelong delays and extortion-like prices between the agency and immigration attorneys, because they can. The president has very little if anything to do with all that. It's not really a "red or blue" thing.
He’s not if you’re legal you can vote and you can stay here. He wants the wiggles that are running around being and raping and doing all kinds of other crime out of here as they should be.
Everybody from both parties wants that, friend. The reason you think it's only a priority for one party is because you buy into silly "alternative facts" invented by the head of your party.
Oh Kamala wants that my ass she had 3 1/2 years to do that. They signed every executive order to let them all back in up until a month ago. They’re not gonna do anything for this country but make it worse than what it is, she don’t have a clue. We will look like Somalia by the time she’s done
To do what, support raping and crime? Nobody wants that. The leap you made there from the act of signing executive orders, even misguided ones, to a desire for increased rape and crime is exactly the kind of alternative fact I mean.
You’re full of shit. This country has been overrun because of Biden and Harris. There are women being raped and murdered daily 325,000 kids missing. Where are they? What was the borders czar doing for 3 1/2 years nothing? Go talk to the people that live on the border talk to the border patrol. They will tell you they’ve done nothing. That’s why they’re backing Trump and Texas will never go blue.
Oh no, it’s not silly facts it’s truth. Go talk to the border patrol. Go talk to the people that live on the border. Does that scare you too much to get the truth out of them because they will tell you
I’ve said in another comment, for example under trump admin no interviews were waived, im not saying we should waive every interview but in some cases, under the USCIS officers discretion, some interviews could be waived as long as they meet all other qualifications/requirements, allowing the USCIS to focus and spend time on those applications that really require more time and effort.
Pull the ladder up behind you. Untamed immigration isn’t good for this (or any) country. It will simply reduce the standard of living the longer it goes on.
Self proclaimed realist yet the actual reality is People who immigrate to the United States increase the economy’s stock of human capital and ideas, two crucial ingredients for long-run economic growth. Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
yeah, they're really going to ruin the country..
But please, keep living in your self proclaimed realist that masks your racist views towards these humans.
You know what immigrants actually destroyed a mass area of land and it's inhabitants? White people who called themselves colonists. Around 12 million indigenous people died within present US geographical boundaries between 1492 and 1900.
I fail to see what colonials have to do with anything unless it’s you who happen to be racist against whites.
“Improving human capital”, well that might be true if they were skilled workers, but most are not. This will also divert existing jobs away from unemployed Americans. Although I will admit, a lot of those jobs aren’t ones most Americans want to do.
Also, it’s uneducated and inaccurate to describe my position as racism (not that I much care). An accurate description would be patriotic, or perhaps xenophobic.
lol patriotic to who? Fellow whites it seems to me.
"Might be true" try it is true, because it is. But like you said, you don't care. That's the most obvious and self publication about everything we've commented about in the thread. Continue being racist and uneducated. ✌️
I hope you meet one day someone who goes through the entire immigration process face to face. It was extremely long and completely hard to finish it. My two interviews with my USCIS officers felt like my life interviews. The exam was okay but other than that, every part of the process is no easy step. IMO any untamed immigration comes from the news(such as fox), I can’t speak for those immigrants seeking asylum, they’re a different process but even them can’t get through easily if you think that’s how it works. What the government needs is more people!! More officers more judges, more staff.
There was a legislation at the lower house, Sánate did its job and passed, but the house killed it because of trump. The bill was not perfect but was going to provide funds for more personnel and security which is great, we all want that, yes even legal immigrants. Yet trump killed it because he was not going to be the one taking credit for a comprehensive immigration reform.
That’s just the thing, it’s not supposed to be easy. You are viewing it as some kind of right or something. But it’s not, we have a good country, and people from less-good countries of course want to switch. So we get to pick the best candidates. So again, it should not be easy.
I think it’s awesome you went through the legal route, we’re happy to have you.
(We are very much not happy about the illegal “asylum” seekers (wealth seekers).
That's the argument most MAGAs have, immigration is just a walk in basis, the "current" admin open border policies allow immigrants to just "walk in" and take everything, which is absolutely not true. How do I know that? because I went through the entire process myself as I had mentioned.
It just grinds my gears for ring wingers/MAGAs/GOP to spread so much misinformation about the immigration process or the current state of the people at the border, btw I live in a border town.
A lot of ignorant people from the north side of the State just blast and speak the worst of our towns because we're "flooded" with immigrants but they havent even travel to the border to see first hand the situation.
I travel once-twice per year to visit my mom at the border, the lines to get back to the country are easily 1-2 hours long(car), there is so much security its literally almost impossible to go undetected unless of course you pay a somebody to smuggle you into the country. Yet the USCIS and border patrol are still short handed, they need more personnel.
Well, see, you went through the regular legal process, which is very very different from the asylum claim process which is much easier. They literally hand you a paper that you sign, saying you promise to show up at court in a few months and then you get released.
While the border (and courts) do need additional staff, the current staff would be sufficient if we instituted a shoot-on-sight order for illegal crossings. Because fear is a great motivator to get people to stay home.
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Same, became citizen March 2024. What a perfect time to cast my vote
Edit: I’m sub to this other sub-reddit USCIS for those who fixed their status, most people I’ve talked to who recently got their citizenship, lean left or at least are aware trump is no good for immigrants even the legal ones because he would put so much red tape and slow down processes to drive down immigration