Adam Serwer
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first heard Jun 2026
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Yeah, I think that's right.
I mean, there were a few Republicans who were angry about, you know, the possibility of, like, you know, they would say things like, oh, you're going to let Chinese men become American citizens?
And they were like, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, it's the only way to do this.
It's the only way to make this not a white man's country is to say, you know, it doesn't matter where you're from.
It doesn't matter what the color of your skin is.
It doesn't matter what your ethnic background is.
If you were born in America...
you are an American, except in these very narrow instances, the child of a foreign diplomat, Native American nations, which were considered obviously separate from the United States at the time.
And that interpretation was so widely shared that the court that decided Plessy versus Ferguson, the decision that legalized Jim Crow in the United States,
they decided in Wong Kim Ark that the fact that, you know, someone was Chinese did not prevent them from being a citizen if they were born in the United States.
I think this administration, as an ideological principle, thinks that this is a white man's country.
And as long as the birthright citizenship clause exists, that principle cannot be fulfilled.
And the reason is, obviously, if all you need to be an American is to be born here, then that applies to everybody regardless of race.
And this administration has been...
you know, evolved in what is essentially a gigantic demographic engineering project with its quote-unquote mass deportation in an attempt to make the country whiter.
So, you know, I really think to some extent this is a project, a larger, I mean, we're talking about birthright citizenship, which is really important, but I really do think this is a larger project of
essentially nullifying all of the Civil War amendments.
I think the Roberts Court, and I should be clear, I don't know that they're going to side with Donald Trump on birthright citizenship.
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