All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
…I feel like the lede’s being buried here; are these crackers really talking about tryna denaturalize people born here??? Oh my god please denaturalize me so I don’t have to pay the exit taxes.
That said, given the news about deportation going around, a judge in SCOTUS that had previously questioned the legitimacy of the 14th Amendment could be a problem…
What i don’t get about this whole though… like if someone is born here, and their parents wer both born here. How do you revoke their citizenship and deport them. Where to? Nearest available non American born ancestors? My great grandmother is German. Would they deport me to Germany? How would any other country react to people being deported there with no ties to that country?
What i do get is they’re going to have to set up some sort of internment camp to put all of these reporters while they sort out those details…
Fourteenth Amendment:
…I feel like the lede’s being buried here; are these crackers really talking about tryna denaturalize people born here??? Oh my god please denaturalize me so I don’t have to pay the exit taxes.
Here’s a more complete screenshot of the original showing the footnotes on the page:
The article being referenced in note 4 is https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol107/iss4/3/. The argument being made is:
That said, given the news about deportation going around, a judge in SCOTUS that had previously questioned the legitimacy of the 14th Amendment could be a problem…
What i don’t get about this whole though… like if someone is born here, and their parents wer both born here. How do you revoke their citizenship and deport them. Where to? Nearest available non American born ancestors? My great grandmother is German. Would they deport me to Germany? How would any other country react to people being deported there with no ties to that country?
What i do get is they’re going to have to set up some sort of internment camp to put all of these reporters while they sort out those details…
the same thing the empire does to other refugees it creates: criminalize → incarcerate → kill
Yeah figured that would be the next step