For the people who saw security and status as their birthright – and that means white men most of all – these losses are unbearable.
For some women, their hostess status is almost a birthright (Katharine Graham).
He has filed his own version of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, as well as bills mandating that employers verify employees' legal status electronically, and eliminating birthright citizenship — an issue he hopes provokes a lawsuit he can take to the United States Supreme Court.
The Dominican Republic rewrote its constitution in 2010 to end the practice of granting birthright citizenship, though without changing the status of current citizens.
Trump has already signaled he'll be ending or curtailing refugee resettlement, and others have proposed legislation seeking to reform things like birthright citizenship, the practice of granting status to people born on US soil.
Above all, in Syria, Putin seeks to extend Russia's influence, both in the Middle East and globally, with his country granted the kind of superpower status that he sees as its birthright.
The result was both mundane and powerful, as women who had accepted fear and danger as our birthright finally started to say "this is not an acceptable status quo".
I don't even know who the locals are or if their status is based on geography or longevity or profession or birthright or appetite.
It's a phrase that has been used by other Republican presidential candidates in recent days, including front-runner Donald Trump, to talk about birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to immigrants in the country without legal status.
Trump began his speech by reciting the names of several victims of crimes committed by immigrants in the country illegally, and repeated his call to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to immigrants in the country without legal status.
