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Originally Posted by flylock shox
The trouble with it is that it seems to depend on how you interpret a person's country of origin. Does the person have to be a citizen of the target country, resident in the target country, born in that country? It's just not spelled out. So for my gf, she's Canadian, but her passport clearly shows she was born in Tehran. Would they even notice this? What if they did? Who makes the decision if that counts or not? And what happens if the guy who lets her cross the border into the US isn't the same guy she runs into on the way out? Is she detained? For what purpose?
It's just a mess. Usually departments would be given months to prepare for implementation of policy or legislation like this (and the policy/legislation itself would be debated so that ambiguities would be resolved). Instead, they're just going to have to do their best to interpret it, and a lot people will be screwed over in the process. And the white house and republicans don't care in the slightest. It's not their problem, as they see it.
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Based on what the State Department is saying, it's based on "nationality" which is pretty much synonymous with citizenship in their rules. So if she's an Iranian citizen she's likely inadmissible, but if she's only a Canadian citizen she'd be OK. That said, if they notice an Iranian birthplace on her passport the onus might be on her to prove that she has renounced her Iranian citizenship. Just a complete cluster****.