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XPost: alt.fun, alt.politics.democrats.d
Here's what some of the bullshit order says:
But the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship
universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth
Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were
born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified
through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at
birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text.
Among the categories of individuals born in the United States and not subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does
not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: (1) when that
person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father
was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of
said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the
United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary
(such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices
of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa)
and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident
at the time of said person’s birth.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/
That is simply bullshit. The citizenship clause *has* been interpreted to extend
automatically to the children born to mothers unlawfully present in the U.S., or
who are lawfully present on a temporary visa. I don't think children born to those women *should* be considered covered by the citizenship clause, because the mothers are not *fully* subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, but the current interpretation of the clause is that those children are citizens. Trump and whatever fuckwitted incompetent lawyer who approved this bullshit are simply full of shit.
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