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Just something I feel tiresome since it's World Cup season and inevitably every major Western democracy is getting some variant of 'Don't like foreigners, what about RANDOM AFRICAN who kicked a goal for NATIONAL TEAM' spammed across social and news channels.
Am I the only one who finds it somewhat absurd that the native underclasses of most Western countries are essentially getting kicked out of a rare but real pathway to winning the athleticism lottery and becoming a professional Soccer or whatever-else player? I feel similarly about trying to outsource this kind of job as I do about outsourcing the bullshit bureaucracy non-revenue admin jobs at a Fortune 500 company in which, sure they could technically be done better but they're more about distribution of societal spoils than actually value driven.
I predict that if the USMNT has an all time run (for them) with the world's most accidental American, birthright citizenship will be upheld. The man is scoring goals for the national team because his mother was refused air transport home because she was too pregnant with him at the time. This wasn't even birth tourism: they just didn't want her giving birth over the Atlantic.
If they embarass themselves, birthright citizenship will be rescinded.
Potential issue with your crystal ball: the next game isn't until June 19, but the final opinions day this year appears to be June 18.
There's zero chance of SCOTUS having all the opinions done by the end of this week, and it's very common for SCOTUS to not post its opinions days until the week before or sometimes even a day before the day. I'm expecting this year to see opinions released until well into the first (and possibly second) week of July.
Yes, I agree now that I figured out how to see the cases remaining to be decided on scotusblog. I count 20 cases not decided yet, so unless the 18th and 25th are marathons, July seems unavoidable.
Many years, they slap some Mondays on the calendar for issuing opinions, IIRC. But at this point, we are indeed getting close to July.
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