Remember how I said that the right's next move would be to end birthright citizenship? washingtonpost.com/opinions/citiz…
Remember this thread?
What's interesting is that they appear to think they can revoke birthright citizenship through reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, with no constitutional change required.
With SCOTUS now firmly on their side, they might already have the power to do this.
With SCOTUS now firmly on their side, they might already have the power to do this.
The idea is hardly new. Reihan Salam called for ending birthright citizenship in 2014.
slate.com/articles/news_…
slate.com/articles/news_…
In 1993, Harry Reid (!!) introduced legislation to deny birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants: cis.org/Feere/Flashbac…
With net illegal immigration having basically ended, the focus of white-nationalism has shifted to kicking out the ~12 million unauthorized immigrants who are already here.
Denying their kids citizenship is probably intended as a way to incentivize them to leave.
Denying their kids citizenship is probably intended as a way to incentivize them to leave.
If the kids of unauthorized immigrants are themselves judged to be in the country illegally, it makes them and all their descendants subject to arrest and deportation by ICE - to a country they've never known.
Obviously most are not going to actually leave, since America is their home country. What we have then is a permanent underclass, deprived of basic rights, permanently on the run from the law, illegal residents of their own country.
The really scary thing is if the right decides to try to do this RETROACTIVELY - to revoke the citizenship of people generations down the line.
I leave it to the reader to decide how likely they are to try that.
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I leave it to the reader to decide how likely they are to try that.
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