Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 12
Cecillia Wang, the ACLU lawyer who argued today for the plaintiff in the “birthright citizenship” case before the USSC…………
is herself a birthright citizen, having been born here before her parents became naturalized citizens.
Only in America- the America we need to preserve and protect.
No. of Recommendations: 9
Later, Wang described what it was like to argue in court today. She explained, it’s “a nerve-wracking experience to argue any case in the Supreme Court, and especially one as weighty as this one, where the president of the United States is taking aim at a cherished American tradition and individual right of citizenship based on your birth in this country. I myself am a Fourteenth Amendment citizen because my parents had not yet naturalized when I was born. So I walked in today with the spirit of my parents and so many people’s ancestors in that first generation of Americans—whether they naturalized or not, I consider them all Americans. They came to this country with hopes and dreams, and they gave birth to future Americans, and that’s us.”
Hell yes.
No. of Recommendations: 4
The thing is there is absolutely no rational reason to deny birthright citizenship. 99.999% of such citizens born here end up being valuable contributors to American society, culture and the economy. Quite often much more so than most otherwise-born Americans.
And, so what if there exists a one-off fringe case of a non-American citizen Chinese billionaire who birthed 57 children here (not even sure that's not a fictitious case made up solely to fear-monger). What's the problem? If those children stay here, they'll become valuable Americans just like all the rest of us, and if they leave, then it matters not a whit to the rest of us.
