5/ Opponents of birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized immigrants have long toyed with the possibility of overturning or narrowing the Supreme Court decision in the 1898 Wong Kim Ark case reaffirming the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States. - ThreadSky

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isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social • 82 days ago

5/ Opponents of birthright citizenship for the children of unauthorized immigrants have long toyed with the possibility of overturning or narrowing the Supreme Court decision in the 1898 Wong Kim Ark case reaffirming the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone born in the United States.

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isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social•82 days ago

6/ The Court’s majority ruled that Kim Ark, the San Francisco-born son of Chinese immigrants, unable to naturalize, was a citizen, despite his parents’ ancestry and status. Had it not been for that case, one historian noted, the US would not be a nation of immigrants, but “colonies of foreigners.”

isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social•82 days ago

7/ Trump and his immigration restrictionist allies might invite the courts to revisit Wong Kim Ark, arguing the landmark SCOTUS decision merely applied to the children of legal immigrants like Kim Ark’s parents and never directly addressed the question of those born to unauthorized noncitizens.

isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social•82 days ago

8/ The Trump administration could also try to work around the ruling. Latching onto a line exempting the children “of enemies within and during a hostile occupation,” they might declare unauthorized immigrants are engaging in an “invasion” of the US and their children ineligible for citizenship.

isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social•82 days ago

9/ “What he’s saying is that even though there’s a guarantee of birthright citizenship,” laws professor Evan Bernick told me, “the president can kind of turn it off by declaring an invasion and try to remove whoever he says is invading…It’s not even a loophole, it swallows the entire guarantee.”

isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social•82 days ago

10/ My full piece for @motherjones.com: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-end-birthright-citizenship-how-to-project-2025-mass-deportation/

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