Will the GOP go after birthright citizenship once the Supreme Court is stacked in their favor?

[Jhoon]

The can try that shyt, basically could lead to a civil war

At what point do you realize we are already there? All we are waiting for us an official declaration.

I bet you we won’t put another sanction on Russia again.

 

[Jhoon]

I think what they would go for is making it that future babies born in the US are not automatic citizens unless at least one of their parents is a legal citizen.

Aren’t they giving citizenships away to rich folks anyway?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

It should have been like this imo.

Starting when?

Citizenship laws in America since the very beginning have been about White people maintaining racial demographics in their favor. And every time a new group gets citizenship, White nationalists try to cut their losses by working to turn that community against the next community that's trying to get in, as if they're gonna forget that that's the exact shyt that was pulled on them the generation before. Natives, Black people, German Catholics, Asians, Jews, Irish, Eastern Europeans, and now Latinos and Arabs and Africans were all targeted by the "don't let them in crowd" at one point in US history, and each time some of them were co-opted by the White people in order to deny the next crowd.

I've been in countries without birthright citizenship. Some communities been living in the same damn nation for 100+ years, going back four generations or more, and they still don't have citizenship because they have the wrong ancestry.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

This basically writes off millions of Americans whose parents aren't citizens. That means legal and illegal. Im telling you the backlash would very intense that there will be blood in the streets.

That would mean a third of the US population is at risk of deportation. Especially if it also implicates grandparents or any relatives who didn’t get birth right citizenship. Good luck trying to deport millions of them without a fight. There would chaos and bloodshed if that were to happen. Hell blue states like New York and Cali will nullify the Courts decision. Could lead to a constitutional crisis.

Would this "decision" be retroactive or going forward? I'd expect it would be going forward. If it's retroactive, then they'll be war. If it's going forward, I don't think the backlash would be as bad as you'd think it be.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Requires a constitutional amendment.

Would it? It could be constitutionally interpreted as "originally meant for native americans and african-americans to be recognized as full citizens". Then they juelzs about everyone else who came afterward. They'd have to because if they didn't a lot of white people are getting deported too.

 

[5n0man]

Starting when?

Should have started before we had to deal with the issue of separating families when people are sent back when they get caught.

I dont know about you but I get real tired of how everything in California is set up to accommodate non English speaking Mexicans. Jobs preferring workers that speak Spanish. Then Mexicans are every bit as racist as cacs when it comes to black people.

 

[JJ Evans]

The court is already stacked in Republican’s favor.

And oh yeah.....

Keep following the advice of internet posters that told you elections don’t matter and Trump & Hillary were the same

 

[newworldafro]

Would it? It could be constitutionally interpreted as "originally meant for native americans and african-americans to be recognized as full citizens". Then they juelzs about everyone else who came afterward. They'd have to because if they didn't a lot of white people are getting deported too.

They could be that racists and :juelz: it out, but I don't think they will.

 

[DrBanneker]

Would it? It could be constitutionally interpreted as "originally meant for native americans and african-americans to be recognized as full citizens". Then they juelzs about everyone else who came afterward. They'd have to because if they didn't a lot of white people are getting deported too.

First like @newworldafro said, they would have to change the 14th amendment to the Constitution. Two-thirds or Congress or the State Legislatures are needed to PROPOSE an amendment. But the latter has never happened, it usually takes 2/3 of House and 2/3 of Senate to propose an amendment and then 3/4 of the states must ratify it. GOP won't have 2/3 of Congress barring some really ugly or unprecedented event(s). Even if they have 2/3 of state legislatures to propose, they would need 38 states to co-sign that shyt to amend the Constitution. You can't do that without co-opting a good number of blue or purple states.

Especially to get that done in 2 years seems real unlikely.

 

[richaveli83]

They'll probably do it but it will be for future children. It probably would effect people that were born in the 2010s or 2000s.

 

[StatUS]

The can try that shyt, basically could lead to a civil war

This muthafukka

 

[Cave Savage]

This muthafukka

Damn, we called it. Didn't think it would be THIS soon though.

 

[StatUS]

Damn, we called it. Didn't think it would be THIS soon though.

And he will do it, but he's also using this to turn out his base for the midterms.

If the Dems somehow lose the house it's gonna get dangerous real quick.

 

[Cave Savage]

And he will do it, but he's also using this to turn out his base for the midterms.

If the Dems somehow lose the house it's gonna get dangerous real quick.

I expect it to be struck down within hours, though.

But if it makes it to the Supreme Court, I wonder how it will go. I'm pretty sure Kavanaugh will vote with Trump but I'm not sure about the other SC conservatives.

And yeah, Dems HAVE to win the House.

 

[WaveMolecules]

This muthafukka

@DEAD7

Both sides though