Birthright citizenship is fundamental to “who we are as a nation.” So why do Republicans attack it?
Birthright citizenship is fundamental to “who we are as a nation.” So why do Republicans attack it?
2024 GOP presidential hopefuls want to distort the Constitution to fit their agenda.
Because they're racist.
Ding ding ding ding ding!
That and citizen tests give them an easy way to "other" anyone they want. Just like the old poll tests that they used to do that were ambiguously written so that they could selectively pass or fail anyone they wanted
because republicans are the antithesis of what it means to be american
What could be a more fundamental part of the American Dream than the "tired, poor, huddled masses" trying to give their children a better future through naturalization.
This is just another Republican nail in the coffin of that dream, killing everything that made others envious of America while they shout more and more shrilly that America is still the best country on the planet.
I disagree I think the Republicans are the modern embodiment of the real American Spirit.
Founded on genocide and chattel slavery, grown with more genocide and wars of expansion. White hegemony enforced through laws and lynchings. Redlining, supreme Court approved internment camps, so many wars on poor countries filled with brown people that have done literally nothing to us.
Any progress you feel is a modern affect and not actually reaching the core of who we are as a people...
This exactly. If they had it their way we'd hear a whole lot more boots marching in the street.
many of my conservative coworkers and family members genuinely believe there is some conspiracy led by George Soros et. al. to bring tons of brown people across our border to have "anchor babies" and further liberalize our country.
if that is what you believe, of course ending birthright citizenship sounds like a great solution
Because they want to control who is able to vote.
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Always has been.
Because the fewer people there are who can vote, the fewer people there are voting against them while their lunatic cult shows up every time. Exclusion and cheating are the only way they've won an election in living memory.
Lol, what a ridiculous headline. Fundamental??
FTA:
After the Civil War, Congress overrode the veto of then-President Andrew Johnson to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which declared people “of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude” who are born in the United States to be citizens.
Sounds pretty fundamental to me.
Well, yes. Naturalization has been there from the beginning and "Birthright Citizenship" as we currently know it was solidified during reconstruction. So yeah, it's pretty fundamental to who we are as a nation. It's responsible for who we are as a nation. Quite literally, in fact.