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		<title>Birthright Citizenship: Is it constitutional?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The United States Constitution states: &#8220;All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.&#8221; Period. The particular subset of this obvious provision that is sometimes questioned is jus soli, literally meaning, right of the soil. This &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/10/30/birthright-citizenship-is-it-constitutional/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Birthright Citizenship: Is it constitutional?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The United States Constitution states: <strong>&#8220;All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>The particular subset of this obvious provision that is sometimes questioned is <em>jus soli</em>, literally meaning, right of the soil.</p>
<p>This is and was a part of English Common Law, which is a good point of reference for any ambiguity, as though there were any ambiguity.  It means that if you are born here you get to be a citizen here. A fairly common exception made to <em>jus soli</em> birthright citizenship is for diplomats or similar, people who are also treated to some degree as though they are not actually here at all. So, if a diplomat can commit a felony but not be prosecuted, then they can&#8217;t drop a baby and have it be granted citizenship.  But otherwise, the interpretation, though fought many times in the courts by nationalists and other asshats, is straightforward.</p>
<p>The reason this is even a thing right now is because the Republicans, under Russian-owned and controlled Donald Trump, are against it, and Trump plans to produce an executive order reversing <em>jus soli</em> for brown people.  What&#8217;s next? Removing citizenship from anyone who&#8217;s home land is not an actual state? (Like Puerto Rico?)</p>
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