Origin, Submission by civil society organizations to the
U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racism (July 11, 2014), at 2.
683. Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 399 (1923); Skinner v.
Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942); M.L.B. v. S.L.J., 519 U.S. 102
(1996) (“[T]he interests of parents in their relationship
with their children is sufficiently fundamental to come
within the finite class of liberty interests protected by the
Fourteenth Amendment.”).
684. As noted above, the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process
Clause incorporates the equal protection guarantee
applied to the federal government. Bolling v. Sharpe, 347
U.S. 497, 499 (1954).
685. Castelano et al. v. Clinton, 2d Amend. Compl., para.
36, U.S. Dist. Ct. S.D. Tex., 08-cv-57, para. 200.
686. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 293
(1973) (“The Rights of Man, supposedly inalienable,
proved to be unenforceable—even in countries whose
constitutions were based upon them—whenever people
appeared who were no longer citizens of any sovereign
state…Although everyone seems to agree that the plight of
these people consists precisely in their loss of the Rights of
Man, no one seems to know which rights they lost when
they lost these human rights.”).
687. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness (2016).
688. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 278
(1973) (“[T]here was hardly a country left on the
Continent that did not pass between the two wars some
new legislation which, even if it did not use this right
extensively, was always phrased to allow for getting rid of
a great number of its inhabitants at any opportune
moment.”).
689. See, e.g., Linda Kerber, The Stateless as the Citizen’s
Other: A View from the United States, in Seyla Benhabib &
Judith Resnik, eds., Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship,
Borders, and Gender 84-86, 90 (2009); Giorgio Agamben,
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life 132-33 (1995).
690. Rachel E. Rosenbloom, The Citizenship Line:
Rethinking Immigration Exceptionalism, 54 B.C.L. Rev. 1695
(2013).
691. UN Human Rights Council, Report of the Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, A/
HRC/38/52, Apr. 25, 2018, at para. 67, https://undocs.
org/A/HRC/38/52.
692. Beatrice McKenzie, To Know a Citizen: Birthright
Citizenship Documents Regimes in U.S. History, in Benjamin
N. Lawrance and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., Citizenship in
Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness 120 (2016)
192
(on Chinese exclusion: “With other groups, immigration
officials looked for indications of inadmissibility among a
largely admissible group. …For those of Chinese descent
on the West Coast, however, government officials looked
for admissible individuals within a largely excludable
group.”)
693. Id.
694. Id. at 19 (“Adapted from English common law,
citizenship by jus soli applied to the children of white
immigrants, those “free white persons” deemed
naturalizable under the Naturalization Act of 1790.”).
695. Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in
France and Germany 50 n.2 (1992) (“In the United State,
the semantic overlap between ‘nationality’ and ‘citizenship’ reflects the political definition of nationhood and the
fusion of the concepts of nation and sovereign people.”);
Jared A. Goldstein, Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and
the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald
Trump, 20 J. of Const. L. 489, 496 (2018) (citing Hans
Kohn, American Nationalism: An Interpretive Essay 20
(1961)).
696. Jonathan Swan & Stef W. Knight, Exclusive: Trump
targeting birthright citizenship with executive order, Axios
(Oct. 30, 2018), https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html.
697. Alexandra M. Wyatt, Birthright Citizenship and
Children Born in the United States to Alien Parents: An
Overview of the Legal Debate, Congressional Research
Service (Oct. 28, 2015), at 17; see also id. at 1 n.1 (citing
congressional hearing testimony from 2005 and 2015 in
the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on
Immigration and Border Security).
698. Alexandra M. Wyatt, Birthright Citizenship and
Children Born in the United States to Alien Parents: An
Overview of the Legal Debate, Congressional Research
Service (Oct. 28, 2015), at 14.
699. See, e.g., Jeffrey S. Passel, D’Vera Cohn & John
Gramlich, Pew Research Center, Number of U.S.-born
babies with unauthorized immigrant parents has fallen since
2007 (Nov. 1, 2018), https://www.pewresearch.org/
fact-tank/2018/11/01/the-number-of-u-s-born-babies-with-unauthorized-immigrant-parents-has-fallen-since-2007/ (“An NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey
conducted in September 2017 found that around
two-thirds of Americans (65%) said birthright citizenship
should continue, compared with 30% who said it should
end.”).
700. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism 55
(1973).
701. Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race
and Rights in Antebellum America 4 (2018).
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