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Originally Posted by Flair4Drama
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This is a textbook strawman — birthright citizenship has been misrepresented entirely. No one claims a child born on American soil becomes the owner of the land. Citizenship is a legal status, not a property deed. The meme conflated the two for people who prefer outrage over accuracy, and it appears to have worked.
The 1607 reference is an interesting own goal. Native Americans inhabited these lands thousands of years before European settlers arrived, yet received citizenship only in 1924. Land and citizenship have always been separate questions — the meme just forgot to mention that inconvenient detail.
Birthright citizenship is the 14th Amendment, settled law since 1868, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1898. Not a Left position — the law of the land.
I realize this may not be immediately obvious to everyone, so I'm here to help.
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