DISGUSTING!

Had Trump, been POTUS when my father and mother applied for their citizenship, they would have been stopped by his administration because they were immigrants from Sicily. People from Sicily and other southern Italian regions were perceived as an "undesirable" population.

"Italians encountered widespread discrimination rooted in nativist prejudices, racial stereotypes, and economic anxieties. Perceived as culturally and racially inferior, Italian immigrants faced exclusion, violence, and systemic marginalization. 

Southern Italians looked unlike any other European group to arrive to the Americas before: Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, and so on. All Norther European. However, Mediterranean Italians are generally darker, and easier to stand out in a crowd—so they were easy targets to begin with.

Sensationalized media coverage, including newspaper illustrations, reinforced the association of Italians with organized crime, violence, and laziness. These stereotypes ignored the diversity of the immigrant population, 99% of whom were laborers seeking honest work."

The Trump administration is engaging in the same type of discrimination against an entire population because of a few "bad apples" and Trump's and his administration's racism.

Here is a partial list of Italians Trump's goons would have kept from achieving their American citizenship had he been POTUS when southern Italians and Italians from other regions were considered undesirable immigrants.

Frank Sinatra's parents

Enrico Fermi

Fiorello LaGuardia's father

Dean Martin's father

Joe Dimaggio's parents

Joe Montana's parents

Lee Iacocca's parents

Anthony Fauci's parents

Jill Biden's grandparents

My father came to America through Ellis Island and eventually landed in Boston where he worked as a barber in Scollay Square.

We lived in Boston and eventually moved to a Boston suburb where, through hard work and savings, he eventually built our family home, bought the building in which his barbershop was located, and sent his children to college. All this was achieved by a Sicilian immigrant, and this story was duplicated by millions of others from southern Italy.

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Abrupt Cancellations: Immigrants across the U.S. reported arriving at their scheduled ceremonies, only to be "plucked out of line" by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers who asked their country of origin. 

 Affected Countries: The policy impacts nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, and others. 

 Reasoning: The administration cited the need for a "thorough re-review process" to assess national security and public safety threats, following a recent incident involving an Afghan national. 

Impact: This pause has put thousands of individuals, some of whom had held green cards for many years, in limbo, despite having completed all prior steps for citizenship.

Immigration lawyers have confirmed these incidents and expressed serious concerns about the abrupt nature of the cancellations, which occurred just as applicants were set to take their final oath.

The irony of this disgusting story is that Trump, who is denying citizenship to targeted immigrant groups, would be denied US citizenship BECAUSE TRUMP IS A CONVICTED FELON AND ADJUDICATED SEXUAL ASSAULTER/RAPIST WHOSE HISTORY INCLUDES PARTYING FOR YEARS WITH CONVICTED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKERS AND RAPISTS, EPSTEIN AND MAXWELL.

Any country that cares about the quality of immigrants becoming a naturalized citizen would NEVER allow a low-life criminal like Trump into its borders.