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Elsewhere hall5/7/2023 Hall’s attempt to argue against birthright citizenship on the grounds that immigrants living in the United States are not subject to U.S. But there are certain benefits of citizenship that are conferred that the aliens simply do not get. When you say ‘subject to the laws,’ surely you can’t murder an alien and get away with it, and an alien cannot murder and get away with it. So an alien who is not a citizen is not subject to the laws, and is not subject to…receiving the benefits in the strictest sense of the word. “We are going to bring to you this truth about ending the birthright citizenship… Neither the Constitution nor the 14th Amendment establish birthright citizenship…What is citizenship? Well very basically, politically and traditionally speaking, a citizen is someone who is not just simply a resident, but someone who is a participant in the society, has submitted him or herself to the laws of that land, and is subject to receive the benefits of that communal relationship. In an October 2018 podcast, Hall set her sights on the 14 th Amendment’s birthright citizenship clause: KrisAnne Hall offers an interpretation that is more nuanced, but, in the end, only slightly so. The League’s envisioned white ethno-state would scrap the amendment altogether. The League of the South has assailed the 14 th Amendment as the most “ nefarious consequence of the Reconstruction,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that contributed to the downfall of Jim Crow segregation. The 14 th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause provided a constitutional basis for Brown v. Through the incorporation of parts of the Bill of Rights into the 14 th Amendment, states – and not just the federal government – were barred from violating free speech, religion, assembly and press engaging in illegal search and seizure and violating a host of defendant protections during trials, among other cherished rights. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. history that something resembling multi-racial democracy was a serious possibility – the 14 th Amendment established birthright citizenship and provided a foundation for the federal protection of civil rights by declaring that , Ratified in 1866 amidst the post-Civil War Reconstruction – the first time in U.S. And though not a white nationalist herself, Halls has offered up her own contribution to American racial inequality – a frontal assault on the 14 th Amendment to the U.S. While KrisAnne Hall may be unable to “speak to what any group or members of that group believe,” the white nationalism of the League of the South has been documented well beyond the point of reasonable doubt. “Today, I had the opportunity of speaking to a group that is accused of having odious and racist views… I can’t speak to what any group or members of that group may believe, since I was there to share what I believe, which is that ALL deserve liberty and ALL deserve sound representation from elected representatives who operate within the confines of America’s Constitutional Rule of Law…I condemn any and all forms of racism, violence, or racial supremacy. Hall described on Facebook the day of the event that, To hear “constitutionalist” KrisAnne Hall tell it, her appearance at an August 10 meeting of the Florida chapter of the white nationalist League of the South was an effort in anti-racist evangelizing.
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