From 22 Chinese women detained in 1874 for being ‘lewd and debauched’, experts point to a grim US tradition
One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, five pregnant immigrant women – led by an asylum seeker from Venezuela – sued over the president’s executive order limiting automatic birthright citizenship, out of fear that their unborn children would be left stateless.
The case went before the supreme court, which sided with the Trump administration Friday by restricting the ability of federal judges to block the order.
The legal drama recalls a scene a century and a half earlier, when a different cohort of immigrant women went to the country’s highest court to challenge a restrictive California law. In 1874, San Francisco officials detained 22 Chinese women at the port after declaring them “lewd and debauched” – a condition that allowed for denial of entry.
what happens when one parent is an immigrant and the other is nth generation? asking for millions of people
That one’s easy
They’re coming for everyone who they seem an “undesirable”. That’s anyone the Nazis would’ve killed. It’s only a matter of when
I left earlier this year because I know I’m going to be next. I honestly kinda hope they do denaturalize me because then I don’t have to pay US taxes. I have nothing to gain from the US at this point.
Depends how much melanin is involved
