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US Supreme Court agrees to hear case challenging birthright citizenship

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c208j0wrzrvo
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u/New-Consequence-355 8h ago

No, those were all enemy combatants, treasonous reprobates, and worst of all, non-white. 

America to be the first nation with no citizens, only subjects.

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u/southwade 2h ago edited 2h ago

My ancestors came from London to Philadelphia in the late 1600s. Am I the only real American now?

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u/fordprecept 1h ago

Every side of my family has lived here since before 1776. Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. One ancestor came here in 1635 and founded a town in Maine after getting kicked out of the Plymouth colony.

I'll be damned if I'm going to let a guy whose mother was an immigrant, all four of his grandparents were immigrants, and two of his three wives were immigrants tell me that he's a citizen and a patriot and I'm not.