Professor Chin Writes on Birthright Citizenship for Talking Points Memo
Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin published an essay on Talking Points Memo, a web-based political journal, on the history of birthright citizenship in the United States.
The topic, which has surfaced as the subject of debate during the presidential primaries, has a long history of controversy in the United States, Professor Chin writes, including the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision that denied citizenship to African Americans, the Chinese Exclusion Act that denied citizenship to children of Chinese immigrants, and the Insular Cases concerning children born in U.S. territories.
"Even though they might be selling this idea like it's new, it has a very long, very fraught history in this country," writes Chin.
Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.