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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
7. The number of people with GEDs in Constitutional law still amazes me
Sat Nov 21, 2020, 01:19 PM
Nov 2020

How is your view in any way different from conservatives' hatred for birthright citizenship?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/526950-trump-administration-revives-talk-of-action-on-birthright-citizenship


Trump administration revives talk of action on birthright citizenship

...“The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was clearly intended to guarantee that emancipated slaves would properly be recognized as U.S. citizens,” said RJ Hauman, government relations director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “It is a fundamental misapplication of this clause that U.S.-born children of illegal aliens are granted automatic citizenship, much less the offspring of people who come here to simply give birth on American soil."

“If the president finally issues a long-awaited executive order limiting birthright citizenship, it will be up to the Supreme Court to resolve this issue once and for all,” Hauman added.


I remind the disinterested reader of the actual wording of the Fourteenth Amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

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