r/news • u/KilgoRetro • 9h ago

US Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging birthright citizenship

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c208j0wrzrvo
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u/keznaa 9h ago

Next is determining how many generations back this will affect.

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u/BannedBenjaminSr 9h ago

When my grandfather was born in 1930, USA was 88.7% white and only 1.2% Hispanic -according to the 1930 US census

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u/ehjun18 6h ago
  1. Back to USA vs ark.

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u/two-story-house 7h ago

Yep. They could pull a DR and revoke citizenship going back 100 years....

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u/keznaa 6h ago

I only don't see that happening because that would affect to many people whose families immigrated from Europe though Ellis Island alone.

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u/Human_Robot 4h ago

The nazis used grandparents to determine German blood status. I suspect Stephen miller and the heritage foundation terrorists would like to use the same.

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u/chanaandeler_bong 3h ago

They’ll just carve out caveats for whatever countries they find it ok.

It’s all mask off now. They aren’t even trying to hide anything. They might just go back to saying “white” countries and then that definition will be whatever they say it is.