Birthright Protects Against Political Purges

If citizenship can be unsettled by administrative review, governments can weaponize paperwork to expel or delegitimize political opponents. Birthright citizenship (citizenship by place of birth) functions as a blunt structural safeguard that closes off that avenue of political persecution; the Omar case shows how scrutiny of minor documentary errors can be amplified into existential legal threats. — Frames the birthright‑citizenship debate as not just immigration policy but a core anti‑abuse guardrail for democratic governance and political speech.