Ellis court granted citizenship by resolving racial doubts in favor of naturalization

Evidence

“Every person born in the country is, at the moment of birth, prima facie a citizen; and he who would deny it must take upon himself the burden of proving some great disfranchisement strong enough to override the ‘natural born’ right as recognized by the Constitution in terms the most simple and comprehensive, and without any reference to race or color, or any other accidental circumstance.” — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 724 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Tarrant was the visitor traveling to a foreign country. Yet his whiteness enabled a fluid and invisible transition, without the markings of “foreignness” and “immigrant” ascribed to Brown Muslims, even those who are full-fledged citizens. His Muslim victims were, legally and physically, at home. However, in his mind, the only formal status that mattered was his white skin. That was his racial passport, and in his mind it made him proprietor of a foreign land. The fifty-one Muslims he gunned down, who were supremely diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, were racially flattened as nonwhite as a consequence of their Muslim identity. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 910 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black citizenship arguments shaped judicial reasoning even when they lost — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 720; Whiteness operates as a racial passport that overrides legal citizenship status — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 910; Courts distinguished biological whiteness from culturally acceptable whiteness for citizenship — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 539 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Birthright citizenship held that race was an accidental circumstance, not a disqualifier #complicates (0.80) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 724
• Whiteness operates as a racial passport that overrides legal citizenship status #complicates (0.74) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 910