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Tim Kaine to Trump: ‘Birthright citizenship is even older than the U.S. itself’

Chris Graham
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Tim Kaine. Photo: © mark reinstein/Shutterstock

“Birthright citizenship,” U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said, “that no matter who your parents are or where they are from, if you are born here, you are an American.”

There are plenty of White folks that interweb troll Ann Coulter points to as having “at least four grandparents” who are lucky we’re that lenient.

A lot of y’all wouldn’t pass a basic citizenship test without your “at least four” grandparents anchoring you here.

On that point, “at least” four, Ann, seriously?

Quick math: mom had two parents, dad had two parents.

How many of y’all had more than four?

Anyway.

“As a legal concept, birthright citizenship is even older than the U.S. itself,” said Kaine, commenting on Donald Trump’s doomed effort to have his handpicked Supreme Court rewrite the Constitution and more than a century of legal precedent.

Trump is clearly trying to Whiten up America – see: rounding up refugees from brown countries and sending them to gulags; while welcoming White apartheid South Africans here with open arms.

What did we expect, though, from a guy whose family made its millions on the backs of exploiting federal housing grants meant to build housing for soldiers returning from World War II, and went out of its way to make sure that none of those homes went to Black families?

The racism is deep in that Trump clan – er, klan.

It’s doubtful that his handpicked Supreme Court will see things his way.

“I am glad that Trump’s blatantly unconstitutional executive order attempting to redefine birthright citizenship has been repeatedly blocked from taking effect by the lower courts. It is my hope that it will be definitively rejected by the Supreme Court,” Kaine said.

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Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected].

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