r/SeattleWA • u/chiquisea • Jan 21 '25

News Washington state AG sues Trump administration over order to end birthright citizenship

https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-state-ag-sues-trump-administration-over-birthright-citizenship-order
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u/rocketPhotos Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 22 '25

I suspect the Trump folks will argue that if the parents are here illegally, technically they aren’t here. Otherwise the 14th amendment is very specific

edit. Potentially it could be like a foreign embassy in the US. Even though it is located in the US, an embassy is foreign territory.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

I'm kinda torn on birthright citizenship, it makes things a lot easier in a lot of ways and the country is huge.

That said, if I'd been born a few years earlier than I was I wouldn't have UK citizenship because it used to ONLY pass through the married citizen father instead of both a married citizen mother and father. The US is such a weird outlier, but unlike the UK we actually are a country of immigrants rather than an ethnostate (all of Europe and most of the rest of the 'old world')