America spent generations deciding who belonged. The Constitution’s choice between “citizen” and “person” reveals something deeper about membership, rights, and the limits of government power.
Spectacular. And between the lines is that "citizen" is not clearly exclusionary. We have, over time, recognized our failure to include more citizens, so that African Americans are no longer slaves, women can vote, and anyone born in this country is a citizen. We accepted the Statue of Liberty, added a poem that says we're looking for more Americans, and we've never returned the Statue. We haven't settled up adequately with the Native Americans, and we're not going to, because we don't want to return their land to them. But that should be the last frontier.
This means Trump’s actions against immigrants with his snatch and grab policy is unconstitutional and must be rejected and the responsible parties brought before congress for adjudication
Spectacular. And between the lines is that "citizen" is not clearly exclusionary. We have, over time, recognized our failure to include more citizens, so that African Americans are no longer slaves, women can vote, and anyone born in this country is a citizen. We accepted the Statue of Liberty, added a poem that says we're looking for more Americans, and we've never returned the Statue. We haven't settled up adequately with the Native Americans, and we're not going to, because we don't want to return their land to them. But that should be the last frontier.
This means Trump’s actions against immigrants with his snatch and grab policy is unconstitutional and must be rejected and the responsible parties brought before congress for adjudication