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In reply to the discussion: Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It's Worse Than Imagined. [View all]Ms. Toad
(37,658 posts)As to the plans released, and the executive order, neither have anything to do with any child born before 2/20/2025.
The EO was drafted very carefully to have the best chance of succeeding in getting the ludicrous proposition through the Supreme Court. It relies on a phrase that has not yet been interpreted (so there isn't any stare decisis to worry about). It only applies going forward (so it doesn't raise implementation problems arising out of grandparents, great-grandparents, etc. potentially not being citizens. It excludes a very limited number of people - those with the most tenuous connection to the United States. Because far better legal minds than Trump drafted it (and the implementing orders) with the goal of actually being upheld, they aren't going to widen it unless they win at the Supreme Court.
Every formal explanation as stayed very close to the original EO.
Yet people repeatedly - despite it being explained several times for each iteration - keep suggesting that the executive order destroys citizenship for nearly everyone - or that Melania and Barron will need to be deported, etc. That crap is not Trump's responses - it is stuff people on our side - who haven't actually read the executive order - are saying. And it's not helpful.
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