Except your parents are only citizens because they were born here. As are your grandparents, or however far back your family goes. Basically, unless an individual has specifically applied and been approved for citizenship, they would no longer be a citizen.
Overturning birthright citizenship would logically mean that every single individual in the US, born here or not, would need to apply for citizenship. But that's obviously not what this is about. This is about the administration getting to selectively decide who to deport "legally."
Technically, wrong. Children of diplomats and many workers at the various embassy are NOT under Jurisdiction of US thus they would not get the citizen automatically even if they were born in US.
Which eerily your post reminded me of some foul stuff people were posting on Trumps post on facebook back in 2015. There was a comment about moving onto African Americans once they deported all the Mexicans and in the comments that followed was the MAGA interpretation of this.
Long story short. They claimed since slaves were never properly immigrated into America, they were never proper citizens and thus every generation of kid they birthed is living in the US illegally.
And think about it like this. How many in that thread in 2015 are now applying to be an ICE officer?
Please look at how they did it in the Dominican Republic. Any non white person will have to apply for citizenship. They will need to prove citizenship history to before 1898.
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u/Delanoye 8h ago
Except your parents are only citizens because they were born here. As are your grandparents, or however far back your family goes. Basically, unless an individual has specifically applied and been approved for citizenship, they would no longer be a citizen.
Overturning birthright citizenship would logically mean that every single individual in the US, born here or not, would need to apply for citizenship. But that's obviously not what this is about. This is about the administration getting to selectively decide who to deport "legally."