BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP

NO, media, the 14th amendment does NOT provide for birth right citizenship, and I am sick and tired of the propaganda and/or ignorance pushed into the public prior to the Supreme Court hearing the matter. At no time did the authors of the 14th amendment ever mention birthright citizenship.  For 40 years AFTER the ratification of the 14th amendment no court had ruled, and no Congress had argued that there was something called birth right citizenship.  I have spent 20 years explaining this, with specific references to texts, statements, rulings, and the like.  Apparently, to no avail. Will the Supreme Court do what’s compelled by the Constitution?  The fact is that Roberts and Barrett are not constitutionalists, so it will be very difficult.  But the Constitution says what it says, the intent of the 14th amendment’s authors is what it is, and the interpretation of the amendment for four decades after its adoption underscores all of it. Moreover, even the Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of ILLEGAL aliens are part of the birth right citizenship fiction.  But this current Court may do further damage to our nation’s immigration system, such as it is now, be enshrining into law what is not in the Constitution.

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