Whose birthright?

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Tuesday’s SCOTUS decision solidified a policy that has been in effect for 100 years: the automatic granting of citizenship to anyone born on US soil, no matter their parents’ citizenship status. Academic quibbling over the true meaning of the 14th Amendment and “birthright citizenship” has led to a fork in the road for this nation. What was meant as an assurance that the newly freed slaves and their children would be guaranteed citizensship, has now been interpreted by the highest court in the land to mean that potentially every child in the world could be a US citizen, provided their mother makes it onto US territory to give birth. No sane person could believe this to be a good-faith interpretation. If this had been the true meaning of the 14th Amendment in 1868, it’s authors would have been ridiculed and quite possible beaten, for attempting to hold a vote on such a suicidal policy.

The question really becomes, do we exist to serve the Constitution, or does the Constitution exist to serve us? How long can a nation with birthright citizenship survive without transforming into something utterly alien to what the Founders intended? Whose birthright should matter? American newborns, born to American citizens whose parents were also American citizens, seem to be left out of this equation. What of their birthright to a stable and secure nation, with employment, prosperity, and a government who prioritizes their needs awaiting them? We’ve sold them out.

What could possibly be the outcome of such an interpretation of the 14th, which incentivizes human trafficking from the most unstable, poverty-stricken corners of the globe? Consequences, particularly ones so far-reaching, should be taken into account before making such decisions. Is a nation really a nation when birthright citizenship has been enshrined as law by our highest court?

Does our system of law exist to serve citizens, or the world? There is no middle ground.

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1.3 million TPS refugees in the US

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There are 1.3 million refugees in the US currently, under Temporary Protected Status. The average length of stay of a typical TPS recipient is TWENTY YEARS. Since they’ve arrived, they’ve had 390,000 children, who all automatically gain US citizenship at birth, thanks to a convoluted interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

Green cards are another story entirely. Over 1 million are issued every year, and the recipients can stay here indefinitely, and are able to bring their spouses and children. 34 million green cards have been issued since 1990.

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Fact of the day: 7.5% of all births in the United States each year are from undocumented immigrant parents, or close to 300,000. Around 25,000 births per year are the result of “birth tourism”, taking advantage of America’s extremely lax and overly generous “birthright citizenship” law.

Learning about the “Israel/Palestine conflict” when Palestine no longer exists

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There is something so unbelievably ghoulish about watching your high schooler learn about the euphemistically termed “Israel/Palestine” conflict, when Palestine itself has essentially been wiped off the map. Abject, brutal genocide, over the course of two years. The “Final Solution”, if you will, implemented by Israel. There is no more Israel/Palestine conflict because there is no more Palestine. A conservative death toll among Palestinian civilians hovers around 200,000, and the entirety of Gaza has been reduced to a pile of rubble. This all occurred in front of the world, and everyone just pretended it wasn’t happening, until the carnage had ended. And now Israel has moved on to Lebanon, taking the southern region and moving north. The world appears to blind to it willfully, as if recognizing that this small nation is the neurotic indulgence of the United States, and apparently best to leave it be, and let it do what it wants, so as to more easily deal with the US.