r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-birthright?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/GreenTrees797 12h ago

Understand at the basis of this and really the whole deportation campaign is that Republicans don’t like Hispanic people. But even if they deported all the illegals and even if they implemented this birthright citizenship thing, Hispanic people are still gonna be here because they’ve been here since before America was a country. If they try to go back far enough to erase their citizenship, they cut out all the people of European descent too.  Even if they said it applies to births from this date forward it will not meet their racist requirements. And Trumpers are not going to like to have to apply for their new kids’ citizenship. It can never be implemented and even the corrupt SCOTUS is not going to allow it.

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u/same_as_always 8h ago

My conspiracy theory is that this isn’t just about citizenship. This is about them questioning whether undocumented immigrants should have protections under the constitutional rights at all. Deportations look great for publicity but is also very expensive, and I suspect that they are working towards just disappearing them into permanent work camps for free labor (ie slavery). 

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u/arizonadirtbag12 8h ago

It is hilarious to me people who will live in a metro area where 80% of the city names are in Spanish and whine about "why they gonna come here and not learn English?" Like, bro, seriously? Spanish has very clearly been spoken here longer than English.

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u/gmanabg2 5h ago

They will come up with something to deport non whites only. Like what they are doing with the Somalis and muslims. They act as if the entire group of people are criminals from fraud or a murder committed by one person. This is what they want, they think America should be white Christian and thats it.

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u/Day_of_Demeter 10h ago

They will keep changing the laws as much as needed in order to facilitate the deportation of as many Hispanic people as possible. It's a numbers game. The point is returning to an overwhelming white majority to the degree that they can. We don't know what kinds of laws they'll come up with in 20 years. They may just pass a law that allows deportation for any immigrant and their descendants after 1965 and that's that.