It's not new and it's not just toady's cheaply-purchased far right justices. It's a white racist tradition.
'In the Insular Cases, a series of decisions related to the territories wrested from Spain after the Spanish-American War, the justices ruled that the people living in American imperial possessions were “alien races” and “savage tribes” unfit for self-rule but not for American domination.'
'The dissenters also dismissed the English-common-law history of birthright citizenship as a “feudal principle,” a “medieval rule,” and a remnant of “the darkness of the middle ages,” having more “to do with being a subject than a citizen.” Legal traditions from hundreds of years ago are apparently vitally important if one wants to ban abortion or strike down restrictions on firearms, but they become barbaric anachronisms the second they diverge from the policy goals of the Republican Party.'
@f800gecko
Ah the American problem.
Citizenship is the right to have rights.
That's why you couple most rights to being human, and make them human rights and these fundamentally binding, and not citizen rights.
With "citizen rights" this only prompts the evil villains into a discussion: are you a citizen? Is your ID/passport/birth certificate genuine or fraudulent? Do I have to test you decently or can I beat you half dead for a starter?