Adam Serwer
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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It's total chaos.
You have to show your papers.
Your parents have to show your papers at birth.
It would be a genuinely insane thing that would create all kinds of bureaucratic problems, headaches, what happens if something goes wrong and someone's citizenship isn't proven and then they're stateless even though their parents are American citizens.
It's a bad idea from a policy logistical point of view in addition to being in a thoroughly amoral,
thing.
And even though, you know, birthright citizenship is actually the rule in the Western hemisphere.
You know, I understand that Donald Trump is constantly insisting that we're the only country who has it, but that's not true.
I mean, if you're a stateless person, there is absolutely, I mean, you basically have no rights, right?
You have no rights except that which, you know, the people in whose custody you are see fit to give you, because there's no government that gives you a guarantee of certain particular rights.
So, I mean, I think, you know, statelessness, mass statelessness is something, you know, we haven't
Well, I don't want to be too categorical about this, but the immediate example I think of is Jews in displaced person camps after World War II.
That's because no European country wants to take them.
I mean, it creates a huge problem.
You know, it creates a class of people who can be abused and mistreated, you know, with no recourse.
And that's a monstrous thing.
Well, what I would say is that you could really argue that America has not been a multiracial democracy for very long.
Not until 1965 did everybody in America have the right to vote regardless of race or gender.
Obviously, in the early 20th century, women get the right to vote, but that vote is still prescribed by Jim Crow and by the wholesale denial of black men and black women of the right to vote in the South.
So it's really only 1965 when America becomes a true multiracial democracy, on paper at least.
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