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How would Trump extend US citizenship to Canadians who don’t want it?
In dreaming aloud about Canada becoming “the 51st state” (a ludicrous phrase considering Canada’s many provinces, including francophone Quebec), Trump overlooks a very important detail. He dreams of the US acquiring the territory, water, oil, and other resources in Canada, but he discounts the people.
Despite his apparent assumption that most Canadians would welcoming becoming “Americans”, polls overwhelmingly indicate that most would not. So that raises the crucial question of how US citizenship could be extended to people who don’t want it.
Trump and his followers are currently not at all generous about US citizenship. They discourage immigration of many people — mostly people with darker skins unless they are rich — and they even question the validity of birth-right citizenship. So it seems hypocritical or deceitful that they would propose extending US citizenship automatically to all Canadians.
The question remains: What would happen to people who declined to accept US citizenship? Would they be treated as “illegal aliens”? Would they be deported? To where?
In his delusional desire to be king of North America, Trump is apparently dreaming of people as his subjects, not as free citizens.
