How Trump's plan for mass deportations fits into U.S. history

[mystery-ak]

Sep 28, 2024 -
Politics & Policy
Axios Explains
How Trump's plan for mass deportations fits into U.S. history

    Russell Contreras

Former President Donald Trump's call for historic "mass deportations" of immigrants from the United States is forcing the nation to revisit past expulsions that left deep wounds still felt today.

The big picture: From the Palmer Raids of Jewish and Italian immigrants of 1919 to the mass deportation of Mexican immigrants in the 1950s, previous deportation operations ignored civil liberties, heightened racial tensions and disrupted families of American citizens for generations.

Catch up quick: In campaign speeches, Trump has said he would launch "the largest deportation operation in American history" and end birthright citizenship as outlined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

    Trump wants to mobilize ICE agents — along with the FBI, federal prosecutors, the National Guard, and even local law enforcement officers — to carry out deportations.
    He says he would start with mass deportations of Venezuelan migrants in Aurora, Colorado, and Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. As part of his call for deportations, Trump has pushed baseless claims that Haitian immigrants are eating house pets in Springfield, a debunked conspiracy theory that led to bomb threats in schools.

Reality check: To end birthright citizenship, the U.S. Constitution would have to be amended by three-fourths of the state legislatures or three-fourths of conventions called in each state for ratification — an unlikely event.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Birth-right American citizenship is not the cause of the current illegal migrant inundation; a Federal Government that refuses to selectively ignore selective non-enforcement of select Federal Laws - selective prosecution on an industrial scale.

[Smokin Joe]

Birthright citizenship was written to include slaves who had been recently freed. It was never intended to launch chain migration via an anchor baby.

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.

If the parents are citizens of another country, they are subject to that jurisdiction, that is, the laws of their home nation. Regardless of where born, the child of those parents inherits a claim to citizenship in their respective nations. Often disputes side with the father's citizenship if they are from different foreign countries. Such people are only subject to the laws of the United States an any State because they are present at the time. In that sense they are subject to our jurisdiction, but in the bigger picture, they are subject to the laws of their home country as well. It is an important distinction. The entire anchor baby gambit is a misinterpretation of the 14th.

How do we know this? In 1924 the US Congress passed the Indian Citizen Act which gave US Citizenship to all natives born in the United States. Before that American Indians were not considered citizens. Yet they were born within the US after the 14th Amendment.
Therefore, the 14th was not meant to give citizenship to people born here from other nations, or there would not have been a special statute to give American Indians citizenship.