Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright citizenship is that some people deserve it and some do not - that the status shouldn't be handed out automatically. Frankly, that's a premise worth considering.

  • -- Eric Liu 刘耀威

为什么公民身份应该是一个出生问题?那些想要终止出生公民权的人所持的前提是,有些人应该享有,有些人不应该——这种身份不应该自动被授予。坦白地说,这是一个值得考虑的前提。

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Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

每次我离开家很长一段时间,我觉得我好像要征服世界。求你将我长子的名分,就是我的产业,夺过来。

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

没有二等公民这回事。这就像告诉我你可能有点怀孕了。

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

我不知道,我可能已经失去了公民身份,但我不认为你会失去公民身份。