This has zero chance of passing the most trivial legal challenge. Plain reading of 14th Amendment grants citizenship to those born in the US. And for good reason. This is really the heart of equal protection. Do we want a country where the laws apply consistently to all, or a country of castes with different rights?
But like all these cheap, position-taking measures, we really should ask -- what is this distracting us from? What is going on that we should be paying attention to, instead of the daily outrage?
This has zero chance of passing the most trivial legal challenge. Plain reading of 14th Amendment grants citizenship to those born in the US. And for good reason. This is really the heart of equal protection. Do we want a country where the laws apply consistently to all, or a country of castes with different rights?
But like all these cheap, position-taking measures, we really should ask -- what is this distracting us from? What is going on that we should be paying attention to, instead of the daily outrage?