Ending Birthright Citizenship
A Constitutional Theory
President Donald Trump’s passion to end birthright citizenship isn’t clever. Frankly, it doesn’t need to be with the millions who support his policies. His voters are convinced that the U.S. is under invasion by people too tan for their liking.
Hold on! Let’s expedite the process to full U.S. citizenship for 59 white South Africans in three months — with more to arrive —while simultaneously ending the same path for thousands of refugees, globally, that were legally allowed to undergo the same pathway by former President Joe Biden. Afrikaners were sped through the U.S. refugee program due to persecution they’ve been victim to based upon race, religion, nationality, social group, or political opinion. Trump has said white South Africans are experiencing “genocide.”
There are people under the same aspects of persecution and genocide who are hopeful for the same courtesy from the U.S. They are Congolese, Sudanese, Afghans that aided U.S. troops in wars, Palestinians, Haitians, Central Americans, South Americans, etc. The International Refugee Assistance Project are suing the administration.
Why are these specific groups blocked from U.S. citizenship?
By the way, the Afrikaners are not facing oppression in South Africa. They have the skin hue that Trump equates with proper Americans.
Anyhow, who gets to enter this county was a heated issue that drove the MAGA base into a red hat frenzy. Nevertheless, we are here. Trump’s executive order revoking protected birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants overrides actual laws. The laws of this country that he claims make America “great.” For reference let’s turn to the document that the Trump administration fawns over, except for the instances they blow their noses with it. It’s called the U.S. Constitution.
The Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1 reads:
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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The document doesn’t classify U.S. citizens, solely, in the text. It never has. It’s clear to anyone that can read on an elementary school level. Cases presently in appellate courts, district courts, and the Supreme Court on behalf of Trump are attempting to cherry-pick their immigration battles. Go after one undocumented immigrant at a time, make them fight for their due process, and have them prove their case to remain in the U.S. legally. While that’s happening the Trump administration can continue to ignore the rights of any person on U.S. soil and move swiftly to shuttle them out of the U.S. Then…repeat.
Ad infinitum.
It’s connected with his goal to sprint to dismantle the federal government. There’s always a headline or emergency because that’s what he wants to create. He’s putting such a heavy workload on the U.S. government that the foundations won’t be able to deal with the weight. The deluge. Again, it’s intentional.
Yes, he ran on being tough on the border. If you’re under a MAGA blanket and fly a MAGA flag outside of your home this is your love language. You rise in the morning with the hopes that the “crisis” at the border that Trump vowed to save you from was a just stance. Noble. Protection of the American homeland from the “foreign invaders” as your leader from the White House loves to say.
The Trump administration’s arguments are meant to challenge the legality of any lower court — and that court’s ability to rule on an immigration injunction that all courts nationwide must adopt to halt a minor or mass deportation ordered by Trump.
Just to catch you up, Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to hustle the undocumented and those with legal permission to be here from the borders of the U.S., is illegal. That specific law can only be used when the U.S. is actually in a war with a country — and said country is “invading.” Or in the case of World War II, when the U.S. leaned into unfounded fears, and racism, and sent mostly Japanese Americans — and those of German and Italian descent — to internment camps. Across the U.S.
Trump’s lawyers are failing to prove the constitutionality of any of the acts they’ve committed thus far. His administration doesn’t have a valid defense against the protections that the 14th Amendment guarantees. Through an executive order, he can’t delete the 14th Amendment. His signature is not a substitute for a constitutional convention. He wishes it were but that’s not the order of operation in what’s left of this wheezing democracy.
Is it about immigration alone?
No. Usually with Trump there’s a shock of noise and vulgarity but there are layers to peel. He’s tapping into the fears of his base. The Americans that want to keep America white. White. Or, the Americans that hope to be of enough service to whites to be accepted into their tent.
Replacement. It’s about replacement.
The Great Replacement.
Don’t be fooled. Too many of the MAGA wing and even the dwindling moderate Republicans that seem to still exist are worried about the browning of the U.S. population. The U.S.A. has been too accepting of certain kinds of migrants that come here for a fresh start in the eyes of many white Americans.
The demographics are shifting towards a minority-majority in the home of the brave. Whites, for reasons undetectable, are rather feeble about the subject. It’s incredibly arduous to figure out why.
White Americans see the children of immigrants, born here as new U.S. citizens, as a harbinger of the inevitable.
It’s all intertwined inside Trump’s inhumane border policies. Don’t lose sight of why the MAGA wing wants to remove every bit of legal abortion access for women. If they can get enough white women to procreate excessively, and without regard for their own health, the white majority holds for future generations of white dominance on these shores.
Think about it: Even when white Republicans/MAGA use Christianity as their shield, it’s a flimsy justification. If it was about religion, and devotion to a higher being, how could they feel comfortable killing women in need of abortions to save their own lives?
Why would women be denied care for pregnancies in dire need of immediate medical attention? Isn’t Christianity about kindness and love for those Christian or not?
Amber Thurman, Candi Miller, and Porsha Ngumezi have all died. Their deaths were “preventable” when reviewed by physicians. These women are Black. They don’t matter. White women don’t matter in this regard either. They’re not a priority to MAGA even as they vote for Trump in numbers that ballooned each time Trump ran for the highest office. White women are seen as birthing chambers for more white babies. MAGA is out to protect the numbers…
Birthright citizenship was meant to cover children born into slavery. To give them rights and equal protection under the law every white American citizen receives automatically. It was one of three amendments passed during Reconstruction abolishing slavery and enshrining civil and legal rights for Black Americans. It served as a starting point to many landmark Supreme Court decisions over the years.
To MAGA and all the elected Republicans who have violated their oath to the Constitution of this territory, birthright citizenship is the door that needs removal. The opening in the wall crying for plastering. For it to remain intact brings them anxiety. They’re haunted at the idea that their attempt to yank unchecked power will be corralled.
MAGA voters, Republicans, and the politicians they elect cower at the possibility that people of color — either becoming U.S. citizens through the steps of naturalization or by incrementally increasing their birth numbers across the states — will unite and register as Democrats while the Republican Party courts Christian ultranationalists and Nazis. Those are usually negatives to people of color. Most of the time.
Taking a jackhammer to birthright citizenship, Trump’s deportation infatuation, and his disregard for lower courts ruling against him for his illegal use of the Alien Enemies Act speaks to the paranoia of the majority of white Americans.
The whole of MAGA and Republicans should relax their petrified hearts. Once those South African refugees who overcame and survived the ills of structural bigotry, undying racism, and the theft of their land have a horde of natural born Afrikaner American children no one will be trying to revoke their citizenship. They’re supposed to be here.
When Americans were presented with the choice of a reasonable alternative, 49.9% of voters selected this administration.