Glad to see that we are right in the thick of things and not leting these moments pass us on by.
Wang, the group’s national legal director, will urge the justices to reaffirm the Supreme Court’s 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which held that children born in the US to foreign nationals are citizens under the Constitution. Wang said that decision has become the foundation of post-Reconstruction America.
“Our entire country has been built on the basis of birthright citizenship,” Wang said. “To reinterpret, or overturn—which the government is really asking them to do—would shatter the foundation of American life.”
The article also quotes more from Wang on being a second gen immigrant and the meaning of the 14th Amendment.
“I’m one of countless millions of second-generation Americans for whom the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment is very meaningful,” Wang said. “And there are many, many millions more, tens of millions of people, who have an ancestor who was a citizen of the United States because of the 14th Amendment.”
“There’s a merging of how I feel personally about this case with how millions of Americans feel about this case,” Wang said of the birthright litigation. “What the executive order does is profoundly counter to this fundamentally American principle that all of us born in this country are American citizens, one and all, and that we have equal rights as citizens.
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