More on Denaturalization and Birthright Citizenship
I had several TPM readers to respond to the post below on denaturing and say that it is actually even worse than I say. More specifically, we cannot really trust that people born citizens will not be faced with denaturing either. A reader simply takes stock: why not? What is the bar that stops that? And of course, of course: everything can in theory. And certain things that we would have thought were only possible in theory a decade ago are Performing regularly now or appears on the horizon. Another reader, more concretely, notes that, while his ancestors have been here for a century, the law of Chinese exclusion raises the possibility that some of his “natural born” ancestors may not be citizens after all and who could be applied against him.
As a general question, I take these points. I simply note that for the moment and I strongly suspect in the future that a thing is conceivable, but the other thing (denaturalization of naturalized citizens) occurs or is actively planned. So that’s where I’m focused. But as I noted in the second correspondent by e-mail, this refers me to a related point that I have referred several times in the last six months: it is not only recent arrivals whose citizenship is based on the citizenship of the right of birth. It is in fact the basis of almost everyone’s citizenship, both in a fundamental sense and even more in evidence and in the outfit of files.
Let me come back to what I mentioned in the previous post on my citizenship probably invited. My organic ancestors on one side all came to this country about a century or a little more. On the other side, they returned to the 17th century. I am a citizen because I was born in St. Louis, Missouri. But if we withdraw the citizenship from the mixture of the mixture, am I a citizen? My birth certificate only lists my parents and that they both born in Missouri. But in the absence of citizenship of the right of birth that does not make sense. It doesn’t say if they were citizens. And their own birth certificates do not include this information about their parents either. It is in fact a more important affair than it seems on the surface. This is something that is in a blurred area between the real base of citizenship and the holding of registers, or its absence, which makes it almost impossible to know. In the absence of the clarity of the citizenship of the right of birth, we simply have no resistance of registers in the country which gives a clarity on which is a citizen and which is not, absent for the recently naturalized.
