Archived What would be the demographic outcomes of retroactively overturning Birthright Citizenship? (AskVoat)
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Archived What would be the demographic outcomes of retroactively overturning Birthright Citizenship? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by DankosaurusRex
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[–] 12591848? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Not going to happen. Ex post facto laws are banned by the Constitution and revoking citizenship would surely be considered a punishment. No way they would remove citizenship from anyone who already has it.
[–] CapinBoredface 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm a citizen because I was born here.
So were my parents.
and their parents.
and their parents.
and their parents.
and their parents.
the first American ancestor that I have moved here in the early 1700s and supposedly at least one of them married and had kids with a native so if I play that game my blood goes back even further.
But none of that matters if you retroactively remove birthright citizenship... because Im only a citizen because i was born here. My parents were only citizens because they were born here.
Your going to have to get a lot more specific about who gets fucked in this deal.
[–] DankosaurusRex [S] 3 points -3 points 0 points (+0|-3) ago
People not born to citizens of the United States of America.
[–] CapinBoredface ago
so retroactive how far?
If you strip everyone who has non citizen parents how do you reconcile people who were born pre 1776?
[–] DankosaurusRex [S] 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
Also, why do we take in refugees when we have a policy as idiotic as birthright citizenship?