CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS
SIMON BARBER: As a new American, I can’t wait to vote against Donald Trump
Trump and his claque will be voted out eventually as he betrays the spirit of the US constitution
Last week I became an American citizen. It took me nearly 40 years to make the leap. I’d had a green card allowing me to live and work in the US since 1979, when I was made a hereditary resident alien on the coattails of my father. He was invited to join the club as a "cultural asset". What finally convinced me to file my papers in early 2016 was the possibility that Donald Trump might be the Republican nominee for president. My hope that I would be able to vote that year proved beyond optimistic. It took more than two years from the date I applied until I was called for the interview, at which they ask you what the First Amendment is and which ocean lies off the east coast and then make you take an oath that you have never committed genocide or been a member of the Nazi party. The delay at least gave me the opportunity to give disapproving English friends a different excuse for swearing allegiance to the Crown. "Boris made me do it," I would say, referring to the boorish Johnson, n...
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