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She Supports Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies. Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its Voting Rolls.

www.propublica.org She Supports Trump’s Anti-Immigration Policies. Texas Incorrectly Flagged Her as a “Noncitizen” on Its Voting Rolls.

Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated.

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And she seethed at the idea that anyone would question the citizenship of a former federal employee with the “whitest name you could have.”
Couldn't have happened to a better racist.
She should count herself lucky that they can't deport her.
- It's ok for this to happen to other people but not me! I'm special!
  
  Literally the foundation of conservative "political ideology".
- Whitest name? Mary? Like the middle eastern woman who supposedly gave birth to Jesus?
  
  100% guaranteed she believes in a white Jesus and would go into apoplectic conservative rage if you pointed out good 'ol Jebus was brown
  
  Not to be confused with the most common name. World wide, the single most common first name is Mohammad. The single most common last name is Wong. Therefore, the most common name globally must be Mohammad Wong.
  It's simple statistics!
- The whitest name I can think of off the top of my head is Winthrop Merriweather. And I’d put money on that person being from the UK, not an American.
  
  Pffft. I can think of whiter names.
  Femke Lænstrom. Jon Øscheid. Becky McBeckface.
  (Don't take me too seriously.)
  
  Dick Whiteman
  
  White Dickman
  
  Alastair Chadwick Cunningham-Smyth IV
  
  Kåre Häkkinen O'Leary
  That's Danish/Norwegian, Finnish, and Irish combined.
  That's a person so white they'd need to put on sun block to go outside when there's a full moon
  
  Benedict Cumberbatch.
- Yet. That’s why Trump was talking about the Alien Sedition Act. Once invoked, anyone can be deported with no due process at all.
  
  But the leopards weren't supposed to eat my face!
  
  She would be saved because no other country would take her. Unless Russia decides to claim her.
- I am an American citizen living in Germany and I have a name that sounds so German that people regularly joke about it (though tbf, my maiden name does not).
- I think you meant to say that she should count herself lucky that they won't deport her. Because if the system flagged her as a non-citizen, then the system deems her deportable.
  But yes, yes, I know what you mean. In the end she's American, so she's "undeportable."
  But it would be hilarious if that happened. And then watch her sue her very own people.
  
  I also mean that they couldn't deport her even if they wanted. I don't know any country that would accept receiving a deported person if that person is not one of their citizens unless they get paid for it (like UK was going to pay Uganda).
  
  Oh that makes sense.
- Five bucks says she was only a contractor or she’d still be taking advantage of the fact that federal employees are notoriously difficult to get rid of - even (especially) if they’re shit at their job.

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