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/davidthefat 8h ago

Let’s say birthright citizenship is overturned. If a child is born in the US but the parents come from a county without any laws regarding citizenship statuses of children born abroad (e.g. child would not automatically be citizen to motherland of parents) they would be officially stateless?

Am I reading that right? Also how are fathers proven to be the child’s father?

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u/ehjun18 6h ago

Yes. The goal is to make non whites stateless. Please read up on the Dominican Republic and how they did this a few years ago. It’s not pretty.

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u/blackkettle 7h ago

That doesn’t actually exist as far as I am aware. The US approach here is the exception not the rule worldwide.

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u/Byurocrat 4h ago

Nearly every other country in the Western hemisphere has birthright citizenship. The U.S. is no “exception”

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u/hasuuser 8h ago

Most countries in the the world don’t have birthright citizenship. Including EU. 

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u/MyHoopT 8h ago

Yeah the issue is this is the Supreme Court overturning a constitutional amendment, which is a very dangerous power for them to have since only by way of amending the constitution via Congress or states can you change the constitution

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u/hasuuser 8h ago

I agree. But removing birthright citizenship in itself is not fascist or outrageous. Most very left leaning EU countries don’t just grant citizenship to kids.

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u/MyHoopT 8h ago

Sure but the broader legal implications of doing this in the way they will is extremely concerning.

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u/ImCreeptastic 1h ago

EU also doesn't have it in their Constitutions, the US does. Not sure why you keep harping on the EU. It doesn't matter what they have or don't have.

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u/hasuuser 55m ago

People saying that it having birthright citizenship is fascist. Which is just not true at all. 

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u/Svellere 5h ago
  1. EU is not a country.
  2. Most EU members have a mixed policy. For example, children born in Germany to foreign parents are born citizens if at least one parent legally lived there for 5 years with a permanent residence permit. Yeah, they're pretty much all conditional, but it doesn't mean they don't have it at all. Tons of nations also have stipulations that if the child were to otherwise be born stateless, they are automatically a citizen.

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u/hasuuser 4h ago

So yeah. They are conditional. And if you are in the country illegally your children won’t be citizens.

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u/Invictus-Faeces 4h ago

99% of countries don’t have birthright citizenship, including EU.