History has taught us what happens when one individual decides he has the power to tear apart what holds a nation together.
Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship in the US.
Donald Trump’s team is preparing an executive order to limit birthright citizenship, which aims to limit automatic citizenship for those born in the United States.
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Donald Trump tore up the 14th Amendment just to deny it. Birthright citizenship For children of undocumented immigrants.
Shortly after becoming the 47th president, Trump issued one. Number of Executive Orders Targeting immigrants, drug dealers and yes, American citizens.
He announced that A A national emergency at the US-Mexico borderdirecting”Armed forces“To take control. He designated cartels as terrorist organizations and cracked down on asylum seekers.
All this has been met with cheers from his supporters and even some Democrats who have decided it’s best to jump on the Trump bandwagon. They foolishly believe that the boy cares about the “common ground”.
Abolishing birthright citizenship was once a far-fetched idea.
But what drew some gasps was Trump’s order to unilaterally end birthright citizenship.
“If you’re born in America, you’re an American,” Arizona Democrat US Senator Mark Kelly said on Xfirst Twitter. “That’s a great thing about our country and the Constitution. Presidents just don’t need to change it.
Well, what do you think? Trump just did.
“The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to grant universal citizenship to everyone born in the United States.” Trump’s executive order Read on
There was the 14th Amendment. Ratified in 1868. To grant American citizenship to freed enslaved black people.
gave The first sentence reads: “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 in which they reside.”
In 1898, the US Supreme Court upheld these citizenship rights in this case. United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Trump is violating the Constitution.
Until now, any talk of abrogating this birthright was seen as a farce or pure fantasy.
But now Trump is president again.
And this time, nothing is stopping him, not even the US Constitution he swore to defend and protect.
American Civil Liberties Union Urgent Filed a case Challenges to the constitutionality of the executive order, and other litigation, will almost certainly follow. on Tuesday, Attorney General’s Alliance 18 states filed their lawsuits.
“We will not allow this attack on unborn children and future generations of Americans to go unchallenged,” said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. “We will eventually prevail.“
Let’s hope the US Supreme Court justices finally see the danger of a single individual unilaterally striking down a constitutional amendment. The consequences are dire.
And don’t be fooled into thinking it’s just about punishing undocumented parents. It’s much bigger than that – it’s the kind of destructive force that’s hard to control once it’s unchecked.
History has taught us what happens when one individual decides he has the power to tear apart what holds a country together. In our case, that thing is called the US Constitution.
Elvia Diaz is the editorial page editor for the Arizona Republic and azcentral. Where this column was first published.. Reach out to him. elvia.diaz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on X, (formerly Twitter): @elviadiaz1
