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Topic History of: Birthright citizenship Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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hedda
One must wonder why the Trump administration went to the Supreme court unless it intends to use the outcome to remove some people who were born in the US.
Trump himself was born to an immigrant mother from Scotland. But she was a US citizen by then.
4 of his kids are what they famously call "anchor babies" but nonetheless according to US law and The Constitution, are US citizens.
Weird times. I thinking the court ruling was 6 to 3 who opposed it.
Dopey Joe Biden could have stacked the Supreme Court but missed the opportunity which may never come again.
JK2006
Is this you Jo or Barney again?
Wyot
I don't think Trump actually cares if rules will work out or not, if he is being a hypocrite, or inconsistent. The values behind these areas of life seem to mean nothing to him.
All he wants is: media time/look tough. W.
Jo
Looks like one rule for some, another for others.
hedda
Donald Trump has always railed against birthright citizenship which is guaranteed under The Constitution whereby anyone born in America is automatically a citizen. Many children thus born by "illegal" parents have been able to take advantage of this.
But now the US Supreme Court has made a really odd ruling that this doesn't necessarily apply "in some areas of the US".
How will this be enforced? Retrospectively?
# Ivanka Trump's 3 children with Trump were born several months before she became a US citizen.
## Barron Trump was born one month before Melania became a US citizen.
### The wife of VP JD Vance was born to 2 illegal Indian parents who later became citizens.