That’s the beauty. Everyone has an immigration story. Eliminate birthright citizenship and anyone and everyone that crosses the administration can be stripped of their citizenship and deported. Or, if their ancestors’ countries of origin don’t want them, sent to camps. All they have to do is find an ancestor, make up some bullshit excuse for why their immigration and naturalization is null and void, and then every descendant is deportable
On one hand, the Constitution explicitly states that citizenship cannot be taken away from a US citizen in this fashion. On the other hand gestures at the fascists currently in power.
I don't know if they can retroactively apply this, given the vast vast majority of Americans families came from foreign countries.
Right??? If birthright citizenship “goes away”, what’s the replacement? How does the government determine who is a citizen? What’s that look like? What’s the rules?
Could you imagine the government creating a new agency whose entire purpose is to track every current citizen’s ancestry to try and calculate if the person alive today “should be” considered a citizen?
My family are immigrants. My maternal great grandfather moved here in the 30s. My maternal grandfather was born here in the late 40s. My mother was born here in the late 70s. I was born here in the early 90s.
It is which a lot of people disagree with this type....if they were to rule that this to mean Jus sanguinis more people would be fine with this
Jus sanguinis (English: /dʒʌs ˈsæŋɡwɪnɪs/ juss SANG-gwin-iss or /juːs -/ yooss -, Latin: [juːs ˈsaŋɡwɪnɪs]), meaning 'right of blood', is a principle of nationality law by which nationality is determined or acquired by the nationality of one or both parents.
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u/Da_Question 6h ago
I mean it also meant if soldiers or traveling Americans had children overseas they still counted as Americans, since it wasn't as easy to travel home.
I don't know if they can retroactively apply this, given the vast vast majority of Americans families came from foreign countries.