Please Stop Spreading Panic About Denaturalization
Opening Arguments
Opening Arguments Media LLC
4.3 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
OA1094 - Denaturalization and an executive order revoking birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents have both been in the news a lot recently, and Matt would like everyone to take a breath and do some realistic risk assessment. We review what it actually takes to denaturalize someone under our current system, and what it would take for a majority of even this Supreme Court to say that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn’t say exactly what it says.
-
Departure Statement of Wong Kim Ark, National Archives San Francisco
-
Trump announcement on birthright citizenship executive order, Agenda 47 (2024)
-
Birthright Citizens: a History of Race and Rights in Antebellum History, Martha Jones (2018)
Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!
If you’d like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give up or give in. |
| 0:03.1 | You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.5 | That is your calling. |
| 0:08.9 | That is your mission. |
| 0:10.0 | That is your moral obligation. |
| 0:12.0 | That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. |
| 0:15.0 | Get in the way. |
| 0:26.6 | Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:44.1 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, |
| 0:47.9 | no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.0 | The fight for our country is always worth it. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1094. I'm yours Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron. How you doing, Matt? |
| 1:09.5 | Just had a big plate of Thanksgiving leftover, so I'm a little sleepy, but I'll make it. Do you all right? |
| 1:15.1 | I'm excited today. I feel like this has been something stuck in your craw for a while or many things. One of them. It's one of them. You know, there are a lot of things that really annoy me, |
| 1:20.0 | but unnecessarily scaring non-citizens really annoys me a lot. I really don't think that we |
| 1:25.7 | should be doing that to people. Unnecessarily scaring |
| 1:27.6 | citizens is almost even worse because these are people that really should not have to worry |
| 1:31.0 | about their status. So I want to talk today about two different things, denaturalization and |
| 1:36.3 | birthright citizenship and kind of what the actual threats to those are, what the theories are, |
| 1:40.4 | and how it actually looks for preserving them. Yeah, I think it's really important. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Opening Arguments Media LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Opening Arguments Media LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.