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> ...repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles. Australia did the exact thing. Switch from Jus Soli to Jus Sanguinis. Some Jus Sanguinis countrie
by pkaye 2y ago
> ...repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles.
Australia did the exact thing. Switch from Jus Soli to Jus Sanguinis. Some Jus Sanguinis countries have switched to some hybrid system that allows legal immigrants to get citizenship at birth.
- worstspotgain 2y agoAustralia also has Vegemite and the Sydney funnel web spider. No desire to imitate those either. There's no reason to punish US-born babies just because their parents committed a misdemeanor jumping the border fence. If they're born here and grow up here they're as American as anybody else, descendants of the Mayflower border-jumpers included. To undertake the process of a constitutional amendment just to deny them that is one of the most racist policies being debated in this country since Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era.
- Vecr 2y agoMake jumping the fence a felony then?
- bennifer2 2y agoDeport the children of felons? Ok but the only country willing to take Eric has frigid winters. He might not make it.
- ahmeneeroe-v2 2y agoYes, this and also just prevent the fence jumping in the first place. It's not an intractable problem, we do have the means to secure our borders.