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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

(And I say this despite having taken advantage of it -- one of my kids is an American)

Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

jus sanguinis taken to an extreme is an even worse idea -- ie Italy which says if you have Italian blood even from 4 generations ago you can be a citizen. It is possible to have a good citizenship regime without either in their pure form -- most modern states are hybrids.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think it's philosophically something you'd do if you were creating a country and a concept of citizenship out of thin air. Much more important to quickly grant citizenship to people who *weren't* born in your country, and a full suite of rights, including voting, to noncitizen residents

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

(The United States has it baked into its constitution, and that's not going to change in any legal or democratic way. Canada could probably do without it, but people tend to like it and you'd want to match its elimination with the extension of some missing citizenship rights)

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry you endured that. Their absence creates a lot of humanitarian tragedies

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think it's philosophically something you'd do if you were creating a country and a concept of citizenship out of thin air. Much more important to quickly grant citizenship to people who *weren't* born in your country, and a full suite of rights, including voting, to noncitizen residents

Cerberus 🇨🇦 @cerberus25.bsky.social · 3h

How do you feel about birthright citizenship?

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

FOUR STEPS TO FIX CANADA'S IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

These four transformations, drawn from the investigation I conducted earlier this year, represent a very wide consensus about what needs to change to make Canada's immigration, refugee and border systems work

www.dougsaunders.net/2025/09/four...

Four Steps to Fix Canada's Immigration System

These proposals are adapted from my Globe and Mail essay Borderlines: Canada's Border is Broken, but Not the Way Trump Thinks. Canada's immigration,

www.dougsaunders.net

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 21h

It was extremely likely that Trump would side with Maduro, as he did with Kim Jong Un. He had more motives to do so. Having him side against Maduro, at least for now, is a blessing, however stupid and ill-calibrated the methods. It’s not unlike Zelensky‘s unfortunate position

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like you haven’t spent much time in Venezuela over the last quarter century. I have. An authoritarian who forced 8 million to flee is not comparable to the leader of a democratic people’s movement

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it is sad

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah you don’t say

Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 1d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s regarded as the optimistic view

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds about right

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

What‘s amazing is that their article about this annoying suffix introduced only four never-printed-before-in-the-NYT neologisms

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 3d

Why failing to reach a big, beautiful tariff-reduction deal is in fact a shrewd strategic move and so much better than having one — just ask the Europeans

(I write from Frankfurt-am-Main)

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Carney’s better off without a big Trump trade deal. Just ask the Europeans

There has been plenty of buyer’s remorse in countries that signed hasty agreements with Washington. Canada would be wise to wait

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of those astonishing historical events I’m surprised I’ve never heard about and should be the subject of several Hollywood movies. Imagine being one of the guys who took the Middle Passage *back* and started again

The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 7d

“The presence of Black seamen was especially important for stowaways. Sailors were known to stack the heavy bales of cotton in a way that created spaces where slaves could fit and to provide them with food and water during the voyage.” —Eric Foner

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

The little countries of our hemisphere are doing what the big ones should have done long ago

foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/10/c...

The Caribbean’s Migration Milestone

Four countries are defying global anti-migrant sentiment to offer free movement to their citizens.

foreignpolicy.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

There we have it.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine, praising a country that's opposing the murderous dictatorship that's taken over your country for 26 years, and razzing its president online.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

I think the meaning of that tweet went right over your head

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

You love to see it.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 2d

No, she’s broadly a social democrat slash liberal. Under the Chavez regime, before Maduro, the unions were crushed and outlawed and oil industry put in the hands of corrupt public officials, so in that sense any Venezuelan favours some form of “privatization”

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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