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Mary Gay Scanlon: “The through line that links this attempt to end birthright…”

Featuring: Mary Gay Scanlon, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, 5th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 35:46

So instead they're trying to do an end run by obliterating more than a century and a half of legal analysis and forcing a tortured reading of the English language, which the Supreme Court just rejected again. Finally, let's be abundantly clear. The through line that links this attempt to end birthright citizenship and every cruel immigration policy propped up by this administration serves the same goal. Turning our melting pot democracy into a white nationalist ethnostate. And we will do everything in our power to fight that vision. As a Congress, as a government, as a nation, we should not be in the business of turning back the clock and allowing our country to backslide. (35:46–36:04)

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Asserts that attempts to end birthright citizenship and other immigration policies by the current administration aim to create a white nationalist ethnostate.

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