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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).
It was after the railroads had mostly been finished, so the racism took precedence. White conservatives got really scared that the Chinese would have enough population to gain significant political power. Sounds familiar?
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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?
Then make an Amendment; that's the legal way to change this. The only way.
-14th Amendment
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.