Indian-origin Mr Thanedar faces massive trolling over birthright citizenship: ‘Your entire lineage should be banned’
Mr Thanedar was brutally trolled for his comments on birthright citizenship.
repealed Mr Thanedar He was brutally trolled and blamed for the suicide of his first wife after he expressed interest in the Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship. Thanedar said the hearing was extremely personal for him because he came to the United States as an immigrant. But he was attacked based on baseless claims and a social media user blamed him for the suicide of his first wife. “As an immigrant myself, today’s arguments over birthright citizenship are deeply personal to me. The 14th Amendment is clear: children of immigrants are guaranteed U.S. citizenship. Despite President Trump’s wishes, he cannot rewrite the Constitution,” Thanedar wrote.
Birthright citizenship says that people born in the US are Americans – regardless of their parents’ legal status. President Donald Trump wants to end it and the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in this regard. Mr. Thanedar did not receive birthright citizenship because he was not born in the United States. He came to America on a student visa but as soon as he expressed interest in the Supreme Court arguments, he was trolled a lot. One wrote, “You married a naturalized citizen to get your green card and then forced that woman to kill herself by giving her an entire bottle of anti-depressants. You then used your legal position to open a biolab in New Jersey, where you tortured and killed innocent animals while defrauding investors.” “You should be denaturalized, deported, and your entire lineage banned from setting foot in America,” the troll wrote.
Who was the first wife of Mr Thanedar?
Mr Thanedar’s first wife was Shamal Thanedar, a neurologist and mother of two, who took her own life in 1996 at the age of 37 by overdosing on antidepressant pills. At that time he was living in St. Louis. At that time his sons were 4 and 8 years old. Mr Thanedar said his wife hid from him that she suffered from depression and he was shocked by her death. In 2024, Thanedar produced and starred in a short film ‘Dear Pra’, which is about Shamal’s suicide. Shamal was also an immigrant from India and there is no evidence that she was a naturalized citizen when she and Thanedar married. Thanedar married Shamal in 1984 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1988. After Shamal’s death, Thanedar married his current wife Shashi in 1999.