It baffles me that it is even possible to summarily strip citizenship like that.
Like, it would be a lot more reasonable if people born on US soil, only in the future, no longer get citizenship.
But how can it be legal to remove citizenship by redefining the law, and then retroactively stripping people of it that no longer fit the definition? Like, isn’t this the same as making a law in 2026 banning smoking, and then going back and jailing anyone who has ever smoked?
It baffles me that it is even possible to summarily strip citizenship like that.
Like, it would be a lot more reasonable if people born on US soil, only in the future, no longer get citizenship.
But how can it be legal to remove citizenship by redefining the law, and then retroactively stripping people of it that no longer fit the definition? Like, isn’t this the same as making a law in 2026 banning smoking, and then going back and jailing anyone who has ever smoked?
Germans did that.