LETTER: On birthright citizenship

SinCity Press — On July 12, 2026, at 9:00 p.m., Peter D. Kinsley of Las Vegas submitted a letter to the editor questioning the scope of birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The submission was updated at 9:02 p.m. the same day. In his letter, Kinsley wrote: With each of the speech astir birthright citizenship lately, I person a question. If the 14th Amendment has ever been interpreted arsenic guaranteeing everyone calved successful the United States is simply a U.S. citizen, wherefore did it instrumentality the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 to marque the precise archetypal radical calved present citizens? The 14th Amendment was intelligibly meant to use to slaves and erstwhile slaves, not hordes of amerciable immigrants’ children.