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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship | Charleston News
The Supreme Court just upheld birthright citizenship — a landmark decision affirming that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen, regardless of parents’ status. While supporters hail it as a bedrock of American equality, critics — including some in Congress and the former administration — are furious, calling it “dead wrong” and pushing for new laws or even a constitutional amendment to end it. The debate, which resurfaced in the 1990s, now centers on “birth tourism” — people coming to the U.S. specifically to give birth for citizenship — and lawmakers are scrambling to respond…
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