• @QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    Lest we forget:

    Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1:

    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. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Pretty hard to argue that “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” doesn’t mean what it clearly states. It’s not even in legalese. The fact that this wasn’t laughed out of court says everything.

    • @Tidesphere@lemmy.world
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      210 hours ago

      I saw a person trying to all caps “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” screaming that this specific clause somehow is the piece that excludes birthright citizenship because something something loyalty to other countries?

      • acargitz
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        27 hours ago

        So like …kids of illegal aliens are … sovereign citizens?

        • @Tidesphere@lemmy.world
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          11 hour ago

          I think the argument was that if your parents are not naturalized citizens, then that means they’re not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’. So like, if the parents ‘owe allegiance’ to their previous country then it makes the kid a citizen of the parents’ original country, and not the U.S.

          But it’s all actually bullshit to try and justify not wanting brown people to be U.S. Citizens tbh.

      • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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        210 hours ago

        States need to criminalize the behavior of ICE officers and start arresting them en masse. ICE agents will be free to challenge their imprisonment individually.

    • @venusaur@lemmy.world
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      They haven’t decided on the legality of it yet. They just decided that courts cannot issue universal injunctions. They can only stop it at a case by case level for those who are suing. If they decide it’s unconstitutional, then it’ll have to stop nationally, but a lot of damage can be done before then. I think they’ll decide in October…

      • @uuldika@lemmy.ml
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        I’m looking forward to fucktons of individual suits absolutely slamming the courts every time an EO is issued. crowdfund the filing fees. turn petitions into copypasta. DDoS the Court system. they literally asked for this.

    • @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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      It is just a fucking piece of paper.

      If the judges and politicians and police don’t care and no one else can do anything then it means nothing.

      It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

      North Korea of America is where we are now.

      • Uggh. I can work out whether to upvote you for the accurate summary of the source of law & state power or downvote you for the utter idiocy of the invasion statement.

        Russia can’t - they’re struggling to take over a country a fifth their size and have burnt through their Soviet stockpiles.

        UK & EU certainly won’t invade, at most they’d send a peacekeeping force to protect civilians at a UN request (UN probably wouldnt pass it)

        Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

        Mexico might just on principle (payback’s a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

        Same for South American Asian and African countries.

        That leaves China, and if you think the Chinese are stupid enough to insert themselves in your civil war and create a sole enemy for both sides to fight you have zero understanding of the Chinese strategy.

        The Chinese will wait for you all to decimate the country and each other, then come in and buy up the bits they want. Oh and invade Taiwan while y’all are busy destroying your country.

        Putin’s plan to destroy the US has worked magnificently.

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          Canada will be stretched just keeping fighting out of its borders.

          Canada just needs to send one guy over to say “you should be our eleventh province” and most of New England will say “yes please, I’m sick of whatever shit the regressives are doing now”

        • Lemminary
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          Mexico might just on principle (payback’s a bitch) but has bugger all capacity.

          More accurately, we literally can’t be bothered. Our state of affairs doesn’t allow for a war, and by that, I mean that a huge national protest would ensue, and many politicians would strike it down for many reasons. Nobody here is interested, and after fighting narcos for so long, we’d rather have peace.

      • @grue@lemmy.world
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        It is this or bloody revolution and that would lead to the US being invaded by multiple other countries and shit getting worse and worse.

        No other nations are going to be invading the US, let alone multiple of them. They don’t have the logistics for it.

    • @WalnutLum@lemmy.ml
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      The problem is and has always been “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”

      People have been twisting that to mean that anyone that isn’t born to American citizen parents means that you are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

        • @Laser@feddit.org
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          101 day ago

          Yeah, this is the thing that’s ignored because it would let the whole narrative collapse.

          Either you can’t deport them because they’re American citizens, or you can’t deport them because they’re not subject to your laws anyway. But in the end, this would just lead to (more) unlawful / illegal deportations.

      • Jyek
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        116 hours ago

        He controls the feds. He’s certainly not stopping himself.