Pseudo-intellectual racists are peddling a falsehood that would strip millions of Americans of their citizenship.
Eastman’s Newsweek article rehashes an argument he has made for years: that American-born children of immigrants only acquire birthright citizenship if their parents were lawful permanent residents at the time of birth. According to Eastman, the children of immigrants who entered the U.S. without authorization, or on a temporary permit, are not American citizens. Rather, they constitute an underclass of aliens subject to deportation and denied the rights and privileges of American citizenship.
Because he makes his case with such confidence, Eastman creates the illusion that there are plausible grounds for his claim. There are not. The first sentence of the 14Amendment declares: “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 wherein they reside.
decision, which held that Black people could not be American citizens because they are an “inferior order” with “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” After the Civil War—which was sparked, in part, byAmendment chose to make birthright citizenship a constitutional command. They did so in unambiguous terms. And in 1898, the Supreme Court
that virtually all people born in the U.S., including the children of immigrants, automatically become American citizens.American Indians outside the control of the federal government, as well as the children of diplomats. It made this choice because the government had limited authority to enforce American laws against both groups: Diplomats and their offspring received immunity under international law, while tribes were treated as separate sovereigns.
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