Defend Birthright Citizenship From Right-Wing Attacks
Losing the protections of citizenship that we have enjoyed for the last 100 plus years would leave us with an unrecognizable, radically different country than we have today. View Article Read full topic
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Every Latino who even thinks of voting Trump should be made aware of this issue. Read full topic
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Defend Birthright Citizenship From Right-Wing Attacks
Butbutbut…Trump is “pro-life.” Read full topic
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I’m strongly in favor of getting rid of it. The US is one of only 2 first-world countries that provides citizenship indiscriminately based on nothing more than being born there. The other...
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Birthright citizenship is being exploited and marketed by millions of people, it was never intended to objectified and it is too bad that everything is politicized to right or left of some stupid...
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Why are you saying this, do Latin American countries have a birthright issue? Read full topic
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Birthright citizenship enabled via the 14th Amendment (Wong Kim Ark vs USA specifically) was critical to the advancement of nonwhite immigrants (especially Asian Americans) who came to the US. Had it...
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A certain segment of Latinos (not Latinas) have become enamoured with the illiberal machismo espoused by Drumpf. They should know that the GQP wants to strip away the rights of their hijos to move...
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I realize there is a stratification of positions on this issue regardless of the political implications. What I don’t get is that there is an entire Southern hemisphere that is mostly Latin based. In...
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“… we learned that Donald Trump would ‘seek to end birthright citizenship’ if re-elected in 2024…” If he’d done that while in office, we might have had the opportunity to deprive him of his and show...
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Niemand: Enslaved Black people didn’t get citizenship. First Nations people didn’t get citizenship. And tangentially, speaking of quirks in US jurisprudence, it’s worth noting that black men were...
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‘During the 1930s, approximately one million Mexican Americans were forcibly “repatriated” to Mexico; approximately sixty percent of those deported were birthright citizens.’ - Wikipedia, “Herbert...
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PaulK: sixty percent of those deported were birthright citizens So perhaps we can do it again, to the “best people” like DT and his co-conspirators. Not that we will. Read full topic
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Niemand: The US is one of only 2 first-world countries that provides citizenship indiscriminately based on nothing more than being born there. The other birthright-citizenship countries are ones you...
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I always preferred is successor. Read full topic
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BobbyLee: it’s worth noting that black men were granted the right to vote before women–of any color!-- were. Excellent point! Read full topic
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bluevote: Birthright citizenship…was critical to the advancement of nonwhite immigrants (especially Asian Americans) who came to the US. If improving the lot of Asian Americans had been the goal,...
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Niemand: And the ones flooding northward from CA and SA are a hint about the value of those countries’ citizenship. I think they are more a hint of US imperialistic interventions in their countries...
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What about the thousands that are fleeing for their lives, they tell a different story? If the U.S. is so harmful why are they coming here? There is South America, Central America and Mexico all Latin...
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dpearl: I think they are more a hint of US imperialistic interventions in their countries causing the instability that creates refugees and asylum seekers. And yet in general it’s the better-off who...
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Niemand: I’m strongly in favor of getting rid of it. This is a pretty tricky issue, and I wouldn’t want to act harshly on any kind of change. I don’t like that there is a perverse incentive for...
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dara: But I don’t want people who are born here to be completely screwed if they grow up here, speak only English, and aren’t recognized by any other country as a citizen. That is too blatantly unfair...
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Niemand: What effect would your ID proposal have on the inequities? It doesn’t address the birthright issue at all, but I believe it would reduce the amount of illegal economic migration (people...
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dara: If you cross illegally, and you can’t make money as everyone is too afraid to hire you, that information absolutely makes it back to the originating country. It’s easier to enforce as employers...
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