There’s something devastating about borrowing Springsteen’s title for a piece about who gets to be born here at all. The song was always about the gap between the myth and the reality of belonging — and this case is, in a way, the legal version of that same rupture.
A few thoughts on birthright citizenship
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/about-this-birtright-citizenship
There’s something devastating about borrowing Springsteen’s title for a piece about who gets to be born here at all. The song was always about the gap between the myth and the reality of belonging — and this case is, in a way, the legal version of that same rupture.