Republicans Propose Stripping Some Americans of Birthright Citizenship

Republicans want to deport all sorts of people from America, usually for racist reasons. Now they want to ‘deport’… Americans?! A Bill to Do What?! Incorrigible readers of this Crummy Little Blog That Nobody Reads will recall we’ve repeatedly screamed in frustration at the naked racism of Republican attempts to deport people. For example, the proposal to deport Native Americans [1] is incredibly stupid, given that Native Americans have a superior claim to a North American birthright than anyone else! But one should never assume one has found the bottom of right-wing stupidity! For example, this genius: Rep H Morgan Griffith (R-VA 9). He has introduced a bill into the House, HR 9724 (“End Birthright Citizenship for Territories Act”) [2], which would drastically change birthright citizenship for Americans born in these US territories: Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands. And by “change”, we mean eliminate US citizenship for anyone born there after…