Source: The Washington Post
Here is an explanation as to why birthright citizenship is clearly protected by the U.S. Constitution and why Trump’s claims that he can end birthright citizenship by an executive order are patently false and legally unsound. Moreover, his attempts to further divide the country, distract from last week’s hate crimes and political violence, and ostracize our foreign born fellow citizens and their families are shameful.
This week’s answer: VOTE, help others have access to the polls, do everything you can to support candidates who believe in human rights and are willing to fight for justice and fairness for all people.
“The 14th Amendment to the Constitution has guaranteed that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.'”
“Those who attack birthright citizenship, as did former Trump official Michael Anton in a recent Post op-ed, often go out of their way not only to misrepresent the plain meaning of the words of the 14th Amendment and those who drafted and ratified it, but also to ignore the racist and bloody history that required it in the first place.”