The US Supreme Court ruled this week that the twentieth-century interpretation of so-called “birthright citizenship”—i.e., the idea that virtually anyone born inside the territory of the United States is an automatic citizen—is to be upheld. This further solidifies into US law the idea that children born on US soil to visiting foreign nationals—among many other non-citizens—are granted citizenship automatically.
Those who think that this decision will “settle” anything politically, however, are mistaken. Indeed, this decision—as with birthright citizenship in general—will increase political conflict over the presence of foreign nationals—both legal and illegal—within the United States. This is because birthright citizenship takes two separate phenomena—immigration and citizenship—and fuses them together. By combining the two, the imposition of birthright citizenship takes foreign nationals—who may be in the United States for non-political economic reasons such as employment—and turns those foreign nationals into political actors.
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