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Just after he was inaugurated in 2025, Donald Trump issued an executive order that denied citizenship to persons born from a mother who was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. Since these two documents are in opposition, it went to the courts, and is now in front of the Supreme Court.
Trump issued the order to make it easier to deport people, but the implications go much further. If a birth certificate doesn't guarantee citizenship, what does? This opens up an avenue for questioning the rights of anyone you want. Imagine someone made Trump mad (as often happens). An investigation can be opened on their right to live in the US.
Are you an American citizen? Yes, I was born here.
But were both your parents American citizens? Yes, they were born here, too.
But were they born to American citizens? Yes, my grandparents were all born here.
How about your great-grandparents? They immigrated from Europe and became American citizens.
They legally became American citizens? Prove it.
Anyone who immigrated to the US before 1906 may have a hard time proving it, especially if their citizenship was derived by relation to a head of household. And citizenship documents were rarely archived for posterity anyway. The 14th Amendment is there for a reason. If it is not upheld, we could theoretically turn half our citizens into stateless people. Only immigrants who were naturalized or those who had ancestors with acceptable documentation (and possibly Native Americans) would have the right to vote.
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Under this model, my kids would be able to vote, because I have a file drawer full of documents pertaining to their legal immigration and citizenship. I also have a file drawer full of genealogy records for me, showing that my ancestors came to the US before any citizenship documents were required, so my right to vote would be in question.
Voter suppression is the name of the game for MAGA.
So Donald Trump is NOT a US Citizen. His grandfather immigrated from Germany. He was arrested in Germany for not informing the German Government that he was immigrating to the USA. There was no such thing as dual citizenship at the time.
Yes, but his mother became a naturalized citizen in 1942.
But were both your parents American citizens. Yes, they were born here, too.
But were they born to American citizens? Yes, my grandparents were all born here. ;-)
There are so many things happening today that should alarm everyone. Just because today you are not the target, doesn't mean they won't take aim at you when they run out of the current targets.
Ignore at our peril. So many "didn't know" what hitler was up to. So many others were just glad it wasn't them. Until it was.
Due process is "notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard" and is afforded to EVERYONE. A five minute hearing is NOT a meaningful opportunity to be heard.
There are very few immigration violations that are crimes, much less jail-able offenses. The constitution guarantees no one shall be deprived of life or liberty without due process of law.
Yet, all kinds of people are being detained in facilities that don't even meet the standards of the local dog pound. They are being held indefinitely, with little (if any) access to legal representation. The detention is deliberately deplorable and indefinite in order to create despair so they will volunteer to be deported.
If the courts contine to allow this, due process as a concept will cease to exist for the rest of us...and it won't matter whether it's criminal court, family court, eminent domain, or any other legal matter.
The '26 and '28 elections are going to make or break this country. I pray we survive.
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