Elisa Gonzalez on the Fourteenth Amendment and its enemies
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The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments concerning the Trump administration’s challenge to birthright citizenship, although the justices are only assessing a procedural question for the time being. In her contribution to our upcoming print issue, Elisa Gonzalez warns that the regime may not need a sweeping legal victory in order to succeed in jeopardizing the rights of millions of people under American jurisdiction. The apparently unambiguous protections afforded by the Fourteenth Amendment have long proven susceptible, she shows, to cynical misinterpretation.
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Brutality and Opacity | Birthright Citizenship Under Attack
ELISA GONZALEZ
Indifference may be the result of failing to grasp that we are all part of a changing and changeable immigration system that determines which “privileges and immunities,” in the language of the Constitution, any of us possess, whether undocumented or citizen. More empathy would help; so would a sense of self-preservation.