J15)Idea: The Law That Terrifies Western Governments
What if a country woke up tomorrow and retroactively stripped citizenship from children of undocumented immigrants born in the country between 1929 and 2010? Not debated, not delayed, not negotiated—done. That’s exactly what happened in 2013, when the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic issued its explosive ruling known as Judgment TC-168-13, and here’s the shocking part: Western media barely talked about it. Because if people in the United States, Canada, or France realized a country had already done this, a lot of global immigration debates would suddenly look very different. In September 2013, the Dominican Republic made one of the most controversial legal moves in modern immigration history. Its highest court ruled that the country could retroactively strip citizenship from children of undocumented immigrants born in the country between 1929 and 2010. Not just future births—eight decades of births, entire generations. Suddenly, hundreds of thousands of people who ha...