Birthright citizenship in the United States

Favreau argues most Americans would reject a system in which the administration decides who is a citizen.

“your citizenship is determined not by your birth, not by where your parents are from, but by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller”

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Favreau notes that even the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies estimates birth tourism at only about 20,000 cases a year.

“But even they say that this is they put birth tourism at roughly 20,000 cases a year”

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Pfeiffer likens using rare birth-tourism cases to attack birthright citizenship to Reagan's welfare queen rhetoric.

“This is Ronald Reagan and the welfare queens all over again”

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Pfeiffer compares the pregnant-tourist scare to the 2018 migrant caravan narrative Republicans used before the midterms.

“And the 2026 version of that is a bunch of pregnant with tourists”

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Davis, quoting a friend, says Roberts believed he was writing the next Brown v. Board but instead wrote a ruling as flawed as Roe.

“The Chief Justice thought he was writing the next Brown v. Board of Education decision, but he wrote the next Roe”

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Davis calls the birthright citizenship ruling the most lawless Supreme Court decision in decades.

“This is the most egregious, lawless decision I've seen out of the Supreme Court in many, many, many years, maybe decades”

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Kelly argues that Kavanaugh's suggested congressional path will not work given the five-justice majority.

“His we can do this by congressional amendment idea will not fly”

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Dershowitz argues that birthright citizenship is a foolish policy that no sensible drafter would put in a constitution.

“Look, let's start with birthright citizenship. It's the dumbest idea ever conceived of anybody. No smart person would ever put birthright citizenship in a constitution”

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DJ says birthright citizenship was created to secure rights for freed slaves and was never intended for children of visitors.

“the whole point purpose of birthright birthright citizenship uh was for slaves”

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Frisella argues Jackson's Japan analogy is invalid because no other country grants citizenship to babies born to tourists.

“it would be like if I were pregnant and I went to Japan and I had my baby, that Japan would make that a Japanese citizen, except they fucking wouldn't”

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