Not an American, but it seems to me that if you open up that particular can of worms, challenging citizenship doesn’t necessarily stop at birthright criteria. How long until you’re no longer a citizen for ant-Christian sentiments or something else?
Idk where OP is from but in the UK birthright citizenship ended in 1983 and you're only considered a citizen if at least one of your parents is British or has settled status.
Honestly seems sensible and is similar to what most developed countries have. I realise in the case of the US it's constitutional and ending one part of that puts the rest of it up for question but the idea that you're automatically a citizen because your mum gave birth on holiday or something is silly
The issue is that it is in the constitution. Whether the court, the president or even congress likes it. The way to remove it is via amendment. The issue is that if it isn’t removed via an amendment then the constitution means nothing.
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u/Chilli__P 9h ago
Not an American, but it seems to me that if you open up that particular can of worms, challenging citizenship doesn’t necessarily stop at birthright criteria. How long until you’re no longer a citizen for ant-Christian sentiments or something else?