On Thursday, Trump said in a press conference that “it would be a disgrace” if the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship. “Twenty to 25 percent of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright citizenship; they’ll become citizens through birthright citizenship,” he said, grossly exaggerating the amount of children born in the U.S. to undocumented people or…

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  • procrastitron@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    News media are failing at their jobs by not calling this out as racist.

    The only reason anyone would object to birthright citizenship is racism. Children born in the US are not criminals (they can’t be since they were just born), and they didn’t come to the country illegally (since they started off there), so there’s no legitimate reason to try to deny them citizenship.

    The only reason Trump and his supporters are pushing for this is because they are racist and everyone needs to call them out on that.

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    8 hours ago

    Once we lose birthright citizenship, we need to strip trump & his family of citizenship, deport them, and ban them from ever returning.