🧵 🧵 Let's talk a bit more about birthright citizenship. An explainer thread. The start of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
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They are using the cover of stupidity or ignorance to hide their maliciousness (which I do believe they don't see as malicious, but still know is legally incorrect)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russians-flock-to-trump-properties-to-give-birth-to-us-citizens/
Except for descendants of slaves, which we can narrowly read the 14th amendment as only applying to them. Deport all but them.
Everyone else gets shipped to their ancestral country of origin.
We've not had it for years (you need at least one parent to be a citizen).
It's whether they make it retrospective - if not it only affects newly born people.
And watch for the stripping of citizenship - that's terrifying, and just wrong.
It might be more of a rhetorical device, to extract concessions or fire up the base or stake out the extremes of a negotiating position.
However, as I explain in this old blog post,
https://www.niskanencenter.org/reading-the-plain-text-of-the-birthright-clause-in-the-fourteenth-amendment/
Absurd.
In the U.S. settler colonial context, there's a third
🇺🇸Constitution now belong 2 Trump.
Trump’s documents to piss on. Putin doesn’t follow🇺🇸Laws or 🇺🇦Borders nor will his puppet
Mobster 🇺🇸Traitor Trump.
Orange McClownface's best friend.
It was not convincing. It pushed the "subject to jurisdiction" and pushed Mike Lee. Your analysis clarified the issues for me