Qasim Rashid, Esq.22h ago

My father arrived in the U.S with $30 and a belief in a country that promised your worth would not be determined by where you were born, but by what you built and how you lived.

That promise is now under attack. On April 1, SCOTUS will hear a case challenging Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. A move that would throw countless families into chaotic and harmful legal uncertainty.
Here's what's at stake and how we defend our constitutional rights.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/if-birthright-citizenship-falls-the-american-experiment-fails/

If Birthright Citizenship Falls–The American Experiment Fails

On April 1 the ACLU is going to the Supreme Court to defend the Constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship–here is what you need to know I am an immigrant. In 1977, my father arrived in the United States with $30 in his pocket. That was it. No guarantees. No

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@QasimRashid I desperately wish I could get through to people just how many people who we never would accuse of "not really" being American are going to get fucked by this. I'm a pasty ginger from the South with indigenous ancestry and I'm pretty sure my grandmother would no longer be a US citizen if they retroactively applied this.

Never mind the myriad nonwhite people who are just as engrained in American culture who will get booted to random country none of their family even going back 10 generations have been to. Y'all think the economy is stagnant now? Wait until a full THIRD of the population (combined number of black, multi-racial, Latin American, and Asian Americans according to Wikipedia) has either been imprisoned, killed or shipped to a field in South Sudan or Guatemala

Edited because I misread the percentages
Edited again because I was right the first time

Mar 23 at 5:34pmWeb