If the ACLU was so confident in the Constitutional case for birthright citizenship, why are they buying ads to make their case in the court of public opinion?

It’s because their case doesn’t hold up in this court…
🧵 The ACLU’s ad shows a teacher saying ‘the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship.’

That’s incorrect.

It was a Supreme Court decision in “US vs Wong Kim Ark” that interpreted the 14th Amendment.

They call us “nativists” as if it’s a slur.

If it is wrong to be on the side of our fellow Americans, what is it to be right? Coretta Scott King and the Black Leadership Forum wrote Congress urging not to repeal employer sanctions, warning cheap labor would devastate Black & Hispanic workers, drive down wages, and overwhelm cities already struggling with housing shortages. Read her letter.

That chart claiming 44% of US unicorn founders are foreign-born is making the rounds again. It’s from Stanford’s Ilya Strebulaev. The data is technically accurate. The conclusion people draw from it is not. Here’s why, using Robinhood. 🧵

https://twitter.com/SteveRattner/status/2022287512517902474

The chart has two big problems:
① It inflates the immigrant contribution by counting co-founders, not companies
② It treats all “foreign-born” founders as interchangeable, hiding that many played supporting roles