There are fucking NEO NAZIS openly collaborating with the military (idc what the official line is, these groups have been unofficially working as for the border patrol and the govt since at least 911) and going to the border to meet…..
Refugees. Armed neo nazis are going to clash with fucking refugees.
Armed neo nazis are going to MURDER refugees. There won’t be any clash. The refugees are unarmed, defenseless, legally protected asylum seekers. And unless someone (hopefully someone high-up in the military who actually cares about laws and the rules of engagement) does something, the ne nazis are going to start fucking shooting them. This is sickening.
so it’s clearly something worse that they “need” to do this for
That’s because “born in the U.S.” was believe it or not, never supposed to apply to children of illegal immigrants. Is this a game? Like, we have a government that is allowed to enforce borders, but if you slip through the cracks and have a baby here you “score” and win citizenship, and there’s nothing we can do about it? Why would that ever be the case?
It’s been the law since 1857 when they tried to strip African Americans of citizenship because their parents were born in Africa:
tl;dr: The only people who dislike the Birthright Citizenship clauses are racists.
It was also further settled in 1898 in US vs. Wong Kim Ark.
In that case, the Supreme Court clarified that anyone born in the US, and “subject to the jurisdiction of its laws,” is a citizen. In other words, the only people not automatically granted citizenship upon birth are “children born of alien enemies in hostile occupation, and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state,” because they aren’t subject to US law.