Immigration
Sep. 13, 2011
Birthright citizenship is a value we should protect
The efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are as unconscionable as they are unworkable. By Bruce J. Einhorn of Pepperdine University School of Law
There is a dangerous brew cooking against our constitutional order. It is the renewed effort by some conservatives, Tea Party activists, and anti-immigration forces to amend or alter the plain meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, which declares that, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.&quo...
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