Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 3, 2023

[thread] Birthright citizenship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_citizenship_in_the_United_States

* U.S. citizenship acquired by birthright in 2 situations
* birth within U.S. territory
* one/both parents is/was U.S. citizen
* contrasts w. citizenship acquired other ways e.g. naturalization
* constitutionally guaranteed to most people born on U.S. territory

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
* citizenship rights/equal protection

#USpol #USconstitution #14thamendment #BirthrightCitizenship

Birthright citizenship in the United States - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 13, 2024

Republicans Keep Calling for End of Birthright Citizenship
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/birthright-citizenship-trump-desantis-2024/674583

* 2023 FL Gov. Ron DeSantis promised to reverse 1-1/2 centuries law/policy
* “end idea that children of illegal aliens entitled to birthright citizenship if born in U.S."
* 2023 Nikki Haley: opposes birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants
* 2023 Vivek Ramaswamy would reform birthright by adding new citiz. req.
* 2018 Pres. Trump proposed ending birthright cit.

#Trump1 #Trump2 #GOP #BirthrightCitizenship

What the Birthright-Citizenship Debate Is Really About

It’s about more than immigration.

The Atlantic
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Plot To Write Birthright Citizenship Out of U.S. Constitution
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-the-plot-to-write-birthright-citizenship-out-of-the-constitution

* most countries issue citizenship based on markers of national heritage
* U.S.: by virtue of being born here
* GOP activists pushing to end birthright citizenship also worked on legal elem. Trump1 2020 coup attempt
* John Eastman, Claremont Institute
* movement to end birthright citizenship

#Trump2 #GOP #authoritarianism #xenophobia #MassDeportation #ClaremontInstitute
#USConstitution #BirthrightCitizenship

Inside The Plot To Write Birthright Citizenship Out Of The Constitution

At the RNC in July, JD Vance had a message: America is not “an idea,” he said in his speech introducing himself as Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick. Rather, Vance argued that the country is a…

TPM - Talking Points Memo
Dec 13, 2024 at 6:03pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 8, 2025

GOP Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person
https://newrepublic.com/article/189651/gop-supreme-court-citizenship-attack
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110648251468432027

* far -right weaponizing doctrine that grants rights/liberties
* no citizenship if not a white man
* 14th Amend: birthright citizenship; equality of all Am. under law
* Trump2 excl. women, trans persons, 2SLBGTQIA+, Black/BIPOC

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #SCOTUS #USconstitution #birthright
#misogyny #racism #whiteSupremacism #paternalism #antiLGBT
#Christofascism #transgenocide

The GOP Is Rewriting What It Means to Be a Person

The far right is weaponizing a doctrine that granted rights and liberties in order to snuff out the citizenship of anyone who isn’t a white man.

The New Republic