Question about Supreme Court ruling on the birthright citizenship thing.

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23. Not at all.

The ruling doesn't say that he can deport anyone in the country. It just says that individual circuit court judges cannot block the administration's actions nationwide... they can only rule to the extent needed to pause proceedings on the people involved in the case before them. The ruling explicitly did not address whether the president has the powers that he's trying to exercise.

More importantly... even the most expansive version of the president's policy does not undo "birthright citizenship" in the sense that being born here does not automatically grant citizenship. The change - while significant - is nowhere near that sweeping. Birthright citizenship is still a thing in Trump's imaginary world... it just only applies to people who were born of at least one parent who was legally in the country at the time. The only people he's trying to deny citizenship to are those for whom neither parent was legally in the country at the time.