{"id":16221,"date":"2025-01-27T23:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2025-01-27T23:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T23:44:50","slug":"what-to-make-of-trumps-attempt-to-end-birthright-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16221","title":{"rendered":"What to make of Trump&#8217;s attempt to end birthright citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;the United States is far from alone in offering birthright citizenship. As of 2022, 60 countries had a provision in their legal codes or constitutions that provide at least some pathway to citizenship by&nbsp;<em>jus soli<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalcit.eu\/modes-acquisition-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to data from the Global Citizenship Observatory<\/a>.* And more than half of those nations have a mostly unrestricted version akin to the United States&#8217; longstanding formulation, whereby nearly anyone born in that country is guaranteed access to citizenship. (Others may provide for birthright citizenship subject to additional requirements, such as parental descent, period of residence and\/or membership of a certain racial or ethnic group.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, unfettered birthright citizenship is mainly found among countries in the Americas,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/article\/migration-brazil-making-multicultural-society\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">many of which<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 including the U.S. \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/article\/argentina-new-era-migration-and-migration-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">have lengthy histories<\/a>&nbsp;of immigration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from other parts of the globe<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/make-trumps-attempt-end-birthright-citizenship\/story?id=118023941\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/make-trumps-attempt-end-birthright-citizenship\/story?id=118023941<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the United States is far from alone in offering birthright citizenship. As of 2022, 60 countries had a provision in their legal codes or constitutions that provide at least some pathway to citizenship by jus soli, according to data from the Global Citizenship Observatory.* And more than half of those nations have a mostly unrestricted version akin to the United States&#8217; longstanding formulation, whereby nearly anyone born in that country is guaranteed access to citizenship. (Others may provide for birthright citizenship subject to additional requirements, such as parental descent, period of residence and\/or membership of a certain racial or ethnic group.)<\/p>\n<p>Overall, unfettered birthright citizenship is mainly found among countries in the Americas, many of which \u2014 including the U.S. \u2014 have lengthy histories of immigration from other parts of the globe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/538\/make-trumps-attempt-end-birthright-citizenship\/story?id=118023941<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2137,221,26,493,25,170],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-birthright-citizenship","tag-donald-trump","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}