In a Supreme Court amicus brief filed in the Trump v. Barbara case, the Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance lays out the anti-Chinese and anti-Black legal theories of the 1880s that underpinned the case against birthright citizenship —

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the same theory the Trump administration and conservatives are using today [implying that birthright citizenship being rescinded for some marginalized groups would eventually lead to the same for others].
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-says-birthright-citizenship-was-only-for-the-babies-of-slaves-why-a-supreme-court-case-testing-that-theory-matters-for-black-americans/ar-AA1ZLe5a

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