• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Then end it going forward. Don’t retroactively remove it from people who had no choice and who have never known any different.

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      5 days ago

      Then end it going forward.

      You mean, “then arrange for a constitutional convention at which you can propose the repeal of the 14th amendment, and then have people vote on it”.

      The president has no ability to end either form of birthright citizenship, it can only be done by modifying the constitution.