roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

Neophyte said:

“Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.” Fulfilling a campaign promise, the order declared that, contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment, individuals born in the United States are not citizens if their parents do not have legal permanent status.

Those discriminatory laws would stand until after World War II, when U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen shifted along with global alliances and Americans of all backgrounds turned out to save democracy.

they certainly saved it

who wouldn’t want to be a subject of and swear their allegiance to a fascist theocracy

Things have chabged somewhat since then.

yes as they said it used to be the Republicans pushing for civil rights but pretty sure the undercurrents have been there the whole time