birthright citizenship

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/2/2023
  

  Why We are Still Debating Birthright Citizenship

  by Martha S. Jones

  Opposition to birthright citizenship has, historically and today, reflected opposition to the idea of equal membership in the political community of the nation and has been inextricable from the idea that white Americans should be privileged citizens, argues the leading historian of the subject. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  

  Why Everyone Born in the US is a Citizen, and Why it Matters

  by Amanda Frost

  In upholding birthright citizenship in the case of US v. Wong Kim Ark, the court invoked English common law, rather than claims to citizenship rights and freedom by escaped slaves, as the foundation of the 14th Amendment's definition of citizenship. This makes the principle vulnerable when it should be unassailable. 

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• SOURCE: The Intercept
  8/18/2020
  

  Trump Said Two Years Ago That He Would Deny Citizenship to Americans Like Kamala Harris

  In 2018, the president called birthright citizenship “ridiculous” and vowed to stop it by executive order.

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• 9/1/19
  

  Restricting Automatic Citizenship to Children Born to Americans Serving Abroad Is Only the Latest Effort by Trump to Dismantle Birthright Citizenship

  by Derek Litvak

  Trump and conservatives are attempting a wholesale constitutional revolution by dismantling birthright citizenship. Here's why birthright citizenship is so historically important. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  12-4-18
  

  First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

  by Manisha Sinha

  Donald Trump wants to destroy the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship. But before he sought to eliminate it outright, his elite predecessors mangled, misread, and misused the amendment in the service of capital.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11-12-18
  

  What Happened When a Nation Erased Birthright Citizenship

  by Jonathan M. Katz

  The Dominican Republic deported an estimated 70,000 to 80,000 people of Haitian descent over three years. Those left behind live in a state of institutionalized terror.

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  10-30-18
  

  The Intellectual Origins of Trump’s Chilling Immigration Plan

  It can be traced to a paper that came out of the right-wing Claremont Institute in the 1990s.

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• SOURCE: History channel
  10-30-18
  

  Why the United States Has Birthright Citizenship

  America didn’t always extend citizenship to those born within its borders.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-31-18
  

  Donald Trump’s Unconstitutional Dreams

  by Eric Foner

  The president has birthright citizenship all wrong.

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• 10/31/18
  

  UPDATED Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship?

  What historians are tweeting and retweeting. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-30-18
  

  Trump eyeing executive order to end birthright citizenship, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution

  An executive order would be certain to spark a constitutional debate about the meaning of the 14th Amendment.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10-30-18
  

  The Citizenship Clause Means What It Says

  by Garrett Epps

  The authors of the Fourteenth Amendment were clear that the United States is one nation, with one class of citizens, and that citizenship extends to everyone born here.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-24-15
  

  NYT Roundtable: Should ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Be Abolished?

  Should birthright citizenship be abolished and, if so, what impact would it have in the United States? What alternative citizenship model should the U.S. adopt instead?