Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading Republican presidential candidate, vowed to end birthright citizenship as a part of his immigration plan released Monday. “We will take action to end the idea …
He almost certainly won’t be able to make that happen, but it’d be a terrible idea. If birthright citizenship were ended, the first thing the corpos would do is replace as many US Citizen workers as they could with Immigrants, and increase the amount of immigrants until they could get a workforce of permanent non-citizens who cannot ever vote.
Smart people who hate immigration or who love democracy would realize that getting rid of birthright citizenship is a VERY bad thing. Our oligarchy would weaponize it real quick. The first people to be made obsolete would be the working class, including the White working class, ironically.
I would imagine that it would give everyone a VERY valid reason to start a civil war right there and then and my money is on the people since Americans possess more guns to population than the rest of the world. Oligarchy trying to push this is going to quickly realize how good they had it until they piss off enough people.
Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution - the 14th Amendment. DeSantis couldn’t just have Congress pass a law repealing it. Now, he could have Congress try to pass a new Amendment removing it. That’s possible, but extremely unlikely.
First, he would need to get two thirds of each chamber of Congress on board. Right now, the chambers are basically divided 50-50. DeSantis might get one or two right leaning Democrats to jump on board (Manchin), but there’s no way he’d get enough to pass this hurdle.
Let’s say he did, though. The Democrats suffer a mass outbreak of temporary insanity and wind up passing this. Now, it would go to the states. DeSantis would need three fourths of the states, or 38, to ratify it. 27 states voted for Trump so lets assume they immediately jump on board. Georgia was close and is run by Republicans so we’ll give that to DeSantis also. This still leaves 10 states. He’d quickly run out of swing states and would need to convince some blue states to approve his amendment.
Is it possible that this happens? Yes, but it’s also possible that I find a winning lottery ticket on my front lawn tomorrow. I wouldn’t count on either one happening though.
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He almost certainly won’t be able to make that happen, but it’d be a terrible idea. If birthright citizenship were ended, the first thing the corpos would do is replace as many US Citizen workers as they could with Immigrants, and increase the amount of immigrants until they could get a workforce of permanent non-citizens who cannot ever vote.
Smart people who hate immigration or who love democracy would realize that getting rid of birthright citizenship is a VERY bad thing. Our oligarchy would weaponize it real quick. The first people to be made obsolete would be the working class, including the White working class, ironically.
So precisely why it will happen.
I would imagine that it would give everyone a VERY valid reason to start a civil war right there and then and my money is on the people since Americans possess more guns to population than the rest of the world. Oligarchy trying to push this is going to quickly realize how good they had it until they piss off enough people.
Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution - the 14th Amendment. DeSantis couldn’t just have Congress pass a law repealing it. Now, he could have Congress try to pass a new Amendment removing it. That’s possible, but extremely unlikely.
First, he would need to get two thirds of each chamber of Congress on board. Right now, the chambers are basically divided 50-50. DeSantis might get one or two right leaning Democrats to jump on board (Manchin), but there’s no way he’d get enough to pass this hurdle.
Let’s say he did, though. The Democrats suffer a mass outbreak of temporary insanity and wind up passing this. Now, it would go to the states. DeSantis would need three fourths of the states, or 38, to ratify it. 27 states voted for Trump so lets assume they immediately jump on board. Georgia was close and is run by Republicans so we’ll give that to DeSantis also. This still leaves 10 states. He’d quickly run out of swing states and would need to convince some blue states to approve his amendment.
Is it possible that this happens? Yes, but it’s also possible that I find a winning lottery ticket on my front lawn tomorrow. I wouldn’t count on either one happening though.