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The idea that citizenship extends to everyone born on U.S. soil has precedents stretching back to the Founding.

Many Roots of ‘We Shall Overcome’ (1946), Union Wins Big at Ford (1941), Learning from a Riot (1936), Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (1966), When Anti-Apartheid Actions Made a Difference (1986), Boston Splits Over Fugitive Slave Act (1851)

Hell No We Won’t Go! (1966), A Titan of a President (1809), What Part of ‘War Crime’ Don’t You Understand? (1976), Bringing NYC to Its Knees (1946), Kidnappers Go to Hell! (1851), A Woman in Revolt (1986), ‘No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger’ (1966)

Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the nineteenth century, too.