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Why was Bob Gregory about to be deported?


They offer some feeble reason that it was because his parents never applied for citizenship.

But if that were the case, and he was born in the US, he would have been a US citizen anyway, whether or not his parents' citizenship was in question.

Also, it took a very long time, about 27 years, in fact, for the immigration officials to find out that he wasn't a legal citizen. So how would he have been able to be accepted into any schools during that time? Or get a job?

Oh well, it's only a movie, and I have to suspend my disbelief, I suppose. But to my mind it's sloppy writing.

Having said all that, the issue didn't prevent my enjoying this film.

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