• AbouBenAdhem
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    It depends on how you (or the Supreme Court) defines “persons”.

    They might technically have to become corporations.

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    Or do we have something in place for it?

    A free stay at a government research facility for the entire family.

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      I was just watching THe Incredible Mr. Limpet last night. Don Knotts turns into a fish and tries to help the US Navy find Nazi submarines. They spend the first bit of their exhcnages trying to kill or trap him, which absolutely tracks.

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    My dog was born in the US and I’m pretty certain he isn’t considered a citizen. There are billions (if not trillions) of individuals born in the US every year who aren’t citizens because they aren’t humans.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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      Technically they apply to Persons, Persons hasn’t been tested against an extra-terrestrial Alien in court yet. I would suspect that it would apply if they are intelligent enough to travel to earth to be quite honest.

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      So with that said they thought of the before hand then.?

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    I love the term ‘space alien’. I think that’s how aliens would like to be called.

    Since the question of earthly citizenship comes first, i don’t think american citizenship would even be considered (de juris citizenship ((birthright citizenship)) applies only to humans i think, anyway, so alien would be comsidered an animal for the purposes of not filing paperwork on it)

    Does Earth have de juris citizenship? For all species in general i don’t think anyone has written that it does, but i bet the UN woild support considering that Space Alien to be the first of its species native to Earth.

    However, the alien species might not even have a concept themselves of de juris citizenship and may only care about bloodline.