A Big Win for Human Rights On The Line: Birthright Citizenship Affirmed!
Jeez… thank God. May dissinters Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch (and even Brett Cavanaugh who dissented contingent on law change), all rot in Hell for being the atrocious human beings that they are.
The AP wrote a good short article and attached the primary source opinion from the SCOTUS. apnews.com/article/s…
By the way, Justice Jackson’s concurring opinion was interesting to skim, especially considering black history in the U.S., as the first black woman on the highest court. I hope to read more at some point.
First of all, 14th Amendment is crystal clear. Let alone all other immigration statutory law, past case law, etc.
Very simply put, birthright citizenship isn’t just a civil rights issue, but it’s human rights issue! Do we want infants deported to third countries like impoverished, unstable countries like South Sudan? Is that the type of world we want to live in? Definitely not me.
I find it shockingly distasteful that it was ever challenged in the first place. So many kids could have been born stateless, even if one green card or U.S. citizen parent went through the admin paperwork hassle of proving their relationship.
But regardless of paperwork red tape, no one should EVER be born stateless, and especially not in a first world country. That is an absolutely unacceptable proposition.
EVERYONE deserves a peaceful, stable country that recognizes them and claims them as their own from DAY 1. Wherever you are brought into this world, you should get to be a member of that part of the world, as it’s necessarily part of your identity, regardless of your biological parents homeland or territorial ancestry.
It doesn’t have to be the United States necessarily. It could be Canada, Mexico, China… wherever.
But everyone must always be a citizen of somewhere.
It’s giving Constitution, eh?