AAF's Amy Swearer Releases Statement on SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Case

Amy Swearer, a Senior Legal Fellow in AAF’s EdwinMeese III Institute for the Rule of Law, said:

“Today’s decision would shock the men who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. They were clear that its purpose was to cement the citizenship status of the newly freed slaves, who were completely subject to U.S. jurisdiction but had been grotesquely excluded from citizenship based on their race, alone. The Citizenship Clause was never intended to bestow citizenship on the children of illegal aliens or tourists, who lack any lawful and permanent connection to the nation. Now that the Court has erroneously written universal birthright citizenship into the Constitution, Congress and the American people must stop at nothing to unwrite it—and to limit the damaging impact of the Court’s error, in the meantime.”

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