My reference to number of generations centers around recent guidance from USCIS to de-naturalize citizens based on broadly defined criteria.
The current discourse in this country centers around suspending habeas corpus to mass-deport millions of people. How do you know who's "illegal" without going through judicial process? You look at their race. And in the end, that's always what it's been about.
I don’t agree in general that’s how the system works or how most Americans think. But again that has nothing to do with the OP. I thought you were asking about American culture and I wanted to clarify.
No, a majority of Americans don't think that way. But unfortunately mass deportation was the central platform of the Trump 2024 campaign, and race is now the defacto targeting criteria for ICE.
The current discourse in this country centers around suspending habeas corpus to mass-deport millions of people. How do you know who's "illegal" without going through judicial process? You look at their race. And in the end, that's always what it's been about.