re: #93 jamesfirecat

It’s not a law it’s a constitutional amendment

en.wikipedia.org)%20a%20US%20citizen.

Birthright citizenship arises from the first part of the Citizenship Clause introduced by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (adopted July 9, 1868), which states:

“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”.

How the f**k do they think they can change that with an Executive Order?

EO goes to the Supreme Court, and you get a ruling like United States v Wong Kim Ark (1898).

That case determined who could be a citizen under the XIV Amendment (not Chinese people).

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first law which defined a citizen, primarily to deal with enslaved persons freed at the end of the Civil War. It defined jus soli (birthright citizenship) for all, excluding “Indians not taxed” (which also appears in the XIV Amendment now).

Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco but left the country while the Chinese Exclusion Act was in force. When he returned, he was denied reëntry. That case went to the Supreme Court, where he was declared not a citizen.