I'm not a lawyer and I'm very tired, so excuse me if this is a stupid question:
But if the principles of birthright citizenship *were* ever dismantled ... what's the theory for how citizenship would be determined?
Apr 26, 2025 02:00Ah, see, that's simple: we just draw the birthright citizenship line somewhere around the 1940s or so, when the white population was at its peak.
Gosh, by sheer coincidence, this really is what the anti-birthright people argue by drawing the line at undocumented parents.
I was born here, but I don't have $5 million.
The retroactive aspect could affect Trump’s family so that may not come to light.
Say, may I ask why we're not rioting in the streets every week? Are we just going to let fascism completely destroy our country while we watch on the computer screen? What would it take for America to wake up?
Good question. How far back would one go to determine who has the right to be here legally? My dad was adopted. We know who his mother was. Who his father was is a mystery.
4 of the 5 kids
#FFOTUS claims as his own were born to women who weren't citizens at the time of birth. Since there is no way 100% reliable way to prove paternity (I'm not saying it but many are saying
#DotardTrump always had a low sperms count) they all must be sent to CECOT.
I was wondering the same thing!
Skin color, gender identity, wealth, and political loyalty.
Simple. Trump decides. 🤷♂️
With this administration, it's if there is something in it for them.
As a Puerto Rican, the Jones-Shafroth Act?
You'd need ancestry....perhaps if you had to get back to native American roots the that would be fun?
Obviously
Birth right citizenship has been dismantled in plenty of other high migration places (Australia, UK, Germany). You get citizenship from your parents. When it was removed in the UK in the 1980s, it just applied to everyone born after a certain date.
My guess is it would be at the whim of the god king, just like everything else lately
Being white helps.
My family arrived in the colony of Virginia. There was no United States of America. Would I get to be a citizen because my family was here on Day 1 of the USA?
By favor of the dictator.
Given that being born here is the only qualification for citizenship for anyone other than immigrants, it would render almost all Americans stateless.
looks
Straight cash homie
Or that weird trump memecoin
Is it good or bad that my ancestors were on the Mayflower?
Because they were definitely not born here, but it feels sorta foundational
Some of us literally can’t prove our heredity.
Did your ancestor come over on the Mayflower and can you prove it? Irony is that tRump and his evil spawn will be deported.
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Hue
How much money you got?
male land owners
Answer: $$$