The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The justices relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling that anyone born in the country, with very limited exceptions, is a citizen.

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    2 days ago

    Yes birth tourism is a real thing, but I don’t trust this regime to limit the scope of their misdeeds and not weaponize them.

    I can not afford to give them a benefit of the doubt.

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      I hate giving them ideas, but they could easilly restrict tourist visas for pregnant women.

      We already cut off asylum for non-whites, remember?