• kava@lemmy.world
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    it’s very common in colonial societies like most of the Americas. without this type of law there wouldn’t be any American citizens. even before the 14th amendment we had birth right citizenship by common law precedence

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      In other words, birthright citizenship exists to increase the population size.

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        pretty much. we all grew up in the US being taught it’s a country of immigrants and the “bring me your weary your hungry your whatever masses to be free”

        it’s actually kind of fascinating to see that ideology shift so fast it’s giving whiplash. turns out we actually kinda need these people for our economy otherwise we’ll end up like European countries with stagnating economies until we eventually get overrun by China

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          It’s never been our ideology in practice.

          In reality it’s been, “Send us your weary your hungry masses to be worked to death and treated like lesser beings.”