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    If you end birthright citizenship, then nobody gets to be a citizen by birth. If you can’t be a citizen by birth, the only way to become a citizen is naturalization. If the only citizens are naturalized people, the country is 100% immigrants.

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      It’s just the title, it even says in the article he would move forward with trying to redefine the 14th amendment. Basically it’ll be if your parents are citizens, and your born here, you’ll be a citizen. (My best guess)

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        A mix of first generation immigrants, 2nd generation, 3rd generation, 4th generation, a few remaining natives.

        100% first generation immigrants would be a major shift.

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      And if immigrants don’t need due process and can be sent to concentration camps then it’s really easy to make anyone disappear

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        If immigrants don’t get due process, then nobody gets due process.

        You could arrest Bill Clinton and claim he’s an immigrant. If that means he doesn’t get due process, he can never prove he’s not an immigrant, and so he’s stuck in Guantanamo forever.