Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision in the case of Trump v. Barbara, overruling the Trump administration and re-affirming that the Fourteenth Amendment does in fact guarantee so-called “birthright citizenship,” conferring the right of U.S. citizenship onto anyone born on U.S. soil. What do we need to know in order to understand that ruling in historical perspective? And how should we expect it to shape the immigration debate going forward?
Aaron welcomes Rick Su, a professor at the UNC School of Law who specializes in immigration law. Su discusses last week’s ruling as well as the history of Supreme Court cases on the citizenship issue – most notably the 1898 Wong Kim Ark case, which also reaffirmed birthright citizenship (jus soli is the legal phrase) – in that case, even for a group of people who’d been singled out and targeted by one of the most notorious laws in U.S. history.
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