Immigration
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RE: IMMIGRATION AND BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
The U.S. Constitution provides “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States ….”[1] In his effort to deport as many immigrants as he possibly can, President Trump has contended that the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” exclude from citizenship children born Continue reading
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RE: ICE Raids
In conducting raids against “illegal” immigrants, the federal government has admitted that its policy is to authorize the arrest, without a warrant, of “immigrants” reasonably suspected of being “illegal immigrants,” based upon 1) their “apparent ethnicity”, 2) the language they speak, 3)the accent they speak it with, and 4) their presence in a location commonly Continue reading
CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS 