The End Birthright Citizenship for Territories Act, introduced by Representative Morgan Griffith, a Virginia Republican, would amend federal laws that grant U.S. citizenship at birth to people born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. The legislation would limit those provisions to people born before January 1, 2027, effectively ending automatic citizenship for future births unless at least one parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
Birthright citizenship is the legal principle that grants U.S. citizenship to most people born on American soil, regardless of their parents’ immigration status. The administration has sought to restrict the long-standing interpretation of birthright citizenship, but those efforts stalled on June 30, when the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order.
The case that prompted the ruling, Trump v. Barbara, had addressed whether children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present are entitled to citizenship at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. The court held that such children are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. The new proposal is part of the Trump administration’s push to reduce immigration levels and tighten restrictions on who can qualify for U.S. citizenship.
So, what, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands are no longer subject to the laws of the United States? So, there is no federal court in Puerto Rico exercising jurisdiction over the territory? What about the US Virgin Islands?
Does that mean they don’t have to pay taxes to the fascist regime?
Republicans who support this are just racists. No more. No less. Whether these Republicans are insane, incompetent, or evil, they are simply wrong. Stop discriminating against American babies!
At this point, if you’re still hanging around with the fascists, you’ve become a fascist.
This is a fair criticism. We are deep into a second Trump Presidency so there’s no more excuses to being ignorant of the complicit fascism. We live in the information age of the 21st Century. It’s past time to be ignorant or ill-informed of softly supporting evil.
Immigration law in the US is and has always has been racist. The first federal immigration law was called the Chinese Exclusion act for fucks sake.
Not sure which way that one goes but in my mind it’s a coin toss between “Chinese Exclusion” meaning to exclude Chinese from a general immigration ban (so they can provide cheap labour to railway makers) or to exclude Chinese from immigration (because racism).
Wow! Your insight is so enlightening. Thank you for posting. I can tell a lot of thought and consideration went into generating a truely novel statement. Much appreciated. This platform it so much better for it.
Honestly what is the issue? Most countries don’t have birth right citizenship. Seems to be more common in the “New world” which understand. But times change and bow we can be around the world in less then a day. Honestly am I missing something?
One major problem is the way this administration is trying to end a constitutional law. If it works for one amendment it should logically also work for others. Freedom of speech? Well if Trump likes it you can have it. A right to bear arms? Well as long as you are not against Trump sure. The law becomes meaningless at that point. If the administration was serious about ending birthright citizenship, they would go through the process of a new constitutional amendment, not try to seize the power to override the constitution.
-14th Amendment
Then make an Amendment; that’s the legal way to change this. The only way.