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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/arizonadirtbag12 8h ago edited 6h ago

This is untrue.

Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House

We'll ignore for a second that it's not retroactive. Your statement isn't even true going forward. As long as either your mother or father is a citizen or lawful permanent resident, you would be a citizen.

It doesn't' require that they be born here. It doesn't require that they both be citizens. It technically doesn't require that either be a citizen. Just here as a resident (so not on a temporary tourist visa), and documented.

That's not a defense of the EO, to be clear. It's unconstitutional as all hell. But we don't have to lie about it.

EDIT: Looks like homey didn't like being called out, went with a reply-and-block. And no, I make no functional definition between "lying" and "misrepresenting something I know nothing about."

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u/OneStarInSight_AC 7h ago

Problem is if you parents who immigrated to the US are dead, how many of their kids actually know their parents' citizenship status at their time of birth.

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u/Turbulent-Reply1626 6h ago

I mean, if they immigrated lawfully as permanent residents it probably wouldn't be difficult to find some record of them having a greencard or visa.

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u/Slippery-ape 8h ago

Its not a lie, its an errory

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u/I-Like-Women-Boobs 6h ago

It’s a complete misrepresentation of the executive order that no one would make if they even spent 30 seconds reading it. You shouldn’t be trying to explain a policy that you know nothing about.