• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    Wait … Doesn’t “citizenship” mean where you’re born?

    It’s either where you’re born or where you live. Which is it?

    Wtf even is citizenship then?

    “I’m from Ireland” is synonymous with “I’m Irish”… Right?

    So if you’re born in America, wouldn’t you… Be American?

    If he takes that away, you aren’t just magically from nowhere, you’re still American.

    This is stupid and makes no sense, it’s all just classism and racism. I hate everything.

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      5 months ago

      The thing about ending birthright citizenship is that it would just create a stateless individual. Where would they even deport children of undocumented immigrants to? Are they going to make an El Salvadorian gulag for them too?

      The former SCOTUS ruling on the 14th amendment was really clear - if you are born here, you are a citizen regardless of your parent’s legal immigration status. I don’t understand why the SCOTUS is even bothering to hear this case when even a constitutional literalist would have difficulty trying to weasel-word their way into a ruling that supports the Republican position on this one.

      I can thing of few things more cruel than a state that looks at a literal child who was born here, lived here all their lives, speaks the language, attends school, has friends and family and a support structure and would otherwise be indistinguishable from any other American child born to American-born parents, and deport them to a country they’ve never set foot in for no real discernible reason other than they are anti-immigrant racists.