“The destruction of a man’s rights, the killing of the judicial person in him, is a prerequisite for dominating him entirely.” –Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Clarity in language is never immune to the treachery of sinister intentions. “Truth will set you free” and “Work will set you free” are clear, noble statements. The first is from the gospels. The second is from an 1873 German novel by Lorenz Diefenbach. Both are forever defiled by the Nazis hanging the work slogan above the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp. A similarly bigoted motive is behind Trump’s defilement of the clear language of the 14th Amendment in the birthright citizenship case.
It is not just about birthright. It is about anyone’s citizenship.
The case the U.S. Supreme Court will decide by July 4 hinges on 13 words in the 14th Amendment: whether anyone “born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” is a citizen. The wording is clear enough that for over 150 years birthright citizenship granted to anyone born here under any circumstance has been undisputed. The amendment helped mend the country’s vilest cancer and supercharge its prosperity.
From 1619 to 1868, when the amendment was ratified, all enslaved persons and most of their descendants were considered neither citizens nor humans, but property. After the Emancipation Proclamation they remained stateless nonpersons, like refugees or “displaced persons” without rights in their own country. Only the 14th Amendment recognized them as human beings with rights as equal as those of whites–as citizens.
Most of us Americans easily understand the difference between being an American citizen and, say, a citizen of Mexico, the European Union, Uzbekistan. Most of us, I would suggest, have no idea what it’s like to have no citizenship whatsoever, to be a stateless person–a person unrecognized by any country, with no rights of belonging anywhere, with no rights, period. It is humiliating and demoralizing, like being one of Orwell’s unpersons, invisible, irrelevant, at the mercy of any state’s whims (or murder) without recourse. A stateless person’s status is closer to that of a person on death row than to the community of human beings.
That’s why the term “illegal alien” is so toxic, why its peddling by demagogues, its blind acceptance by media and adoption in government documents or even some classroom materials is groundwork for the unconscionable: it formalizes the dehumanization of the person, both as an “illegal” entity and as an “alien.” The person is not just a foreign body. It is not even a person. It has no right of existence among us. It must be either expelled or exterminated.
Fortunately we have not crossed the line beyond expulsion. But we have yellow-starred millions as “illegal aliens.” (The Pew Research Center put the figure at 14 million in 2023, or 4 percent of the population.)
The debate over birthright citizenship has focused on what would happen to future babies born on American soil to non-American parents. That’s not Trump’s endgame. If you’ve been paying attention to his totalitarian approach to immigration, the endgame is to use the elimination of birthright citizenship as the stepping stone to his final solution: the denaturalization of masses of migrants who obtained citizenship simply by being born here. The distance between a Supreme Court decision in favor of Trump’s order and Germany’s Nuremberg Laws of 1935 is mere degrees.
One of the terrifying things about the attack on the 14th Amendment is that it is not novel at all. It is a method perfected by democracies going back a century and a half.
Germany alone was not guilty of stripping citizenship from 600,000 Jews with its Nuremberg Laws. France, Belgium, Portugal and other democracies stripped Germans and others of citizenship from the beginning of the last century, and condemned colonial subjects and “undesirables”–their “illegal aliens”–to statelessness well into the 1960s. Poles, Ukrainians and Baltic region refugees expelled by Soviet expansion were made stateless and held in concentration camps.
Mr. Guizac, the Polish refugee at the center of Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 story, “The Displaced Person,” is a stateless person trying to pull his cousin out of one such concentration camp, where she’s been held for three years. Right after Arthur Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his novel of Soviet camp brutality and mind control, he wrote Scum of the Earth, his memoir of internment in a French concentration camp. “Men of exemplary courage and daring, after having been labelled ‘refugees’ and beaten out of three or four countries, went about as if carrying an invisible leper’s bell,” he wrote.
We did this to 127,000 Japanese-Americans, interning them in concentration camps during World War II. They did not officially lose their citizenship. But citizenship meant nothing for those war years, when it mattered most. The rights protecting all other Americans did not protect them. They were stateless. It took the Supreme Court until 2018 to declare internment “gravely wrong,” though it did so in a 5-4 decision ratifying Trump’s first of many xenophobic travel bans, which opened the door to the birthright aberration.
Depending on how it goes, the birthright decision could lead to millions more losing citizenship. The decision itself won’t be retroactive. But it would provide the precedent for Congress to write purity laws enabling denaturalization. As slippery slopes go, it’s an ice-skate to Nuremberg.
For a state to have the power to denaturalize a citizen, to condemn people to statelessness, is one of the most arbitrary and cruelest powers a state could exercise. It gives the state the power to fabricate “illegal aliens.” That’s where we would be headed.
If the 14th Amendment’s language wasn’t intended to make that obscenity impossible, the totality of the Bill of Rights–a monument to the unconditional sovereignty of the individual–certainly does. In that sense, the mere existence of the birthright citizenship case in this nothing nation but for immigrants, the fact that it has gotten this far or risks anything less than a unanimous decision demolishing it, is not just an offense to the 14th Amendment. It is an assault on every amendment, and the disgrace of the sestercentennial anniversary we would be celebrating within days of the decision.
Pierre Tristam is the editor of FlaglerLive. A version of this piece airs on WNZF.
You may be right says
Google me this …
If a pregnant woman goes to China and has her child in a Chinese hospital, is the child a Chinese citizen?
A child born in China is generally only a Chinese citizen if at least one parent is a Chinese national, according to the Nationality Law of the People’s Republic of China. If both parents are foreign citizens, the child is typically not a Chinese citizen. China follows jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood) rather than jus soli (birthright citizenship).
If a pregnant woman goes to Spain and has her child in a Spanish hospital, is the child a Spanish citizen?
No, a child born in Spain to foreign parents does not automatically become a Spanish citizen. Spain generally follows citizenship by blood (jus sanguinis), not by place of birth (jus soli). The child inherits the parents’ nationality, though they may have a faster, facilitated path to Spanish citizenship after one year of legal residence.
If a pregnant woman goes to Ireland and has her child in an Irish hospital, is the child an Irish citizen?
Not automatically. Under Irish law, since January 1, 2005, birth in Ireland does not automatically grant citizenship. To be an Irish citizen, at least one parent must be an Irish citizen, a British citizen, or a legal resident with a proven, substantial connection to Ireland (usually 3 years of residency) prior to the birth.
If a pregnant woman goes to Germany and has her child in a German hospital, is the child a German citizen?
No, a child born in Germany to foreign parents does not automatically acquire German citizenship solely by being born in a German hospital. Germany primarily uses jus sanguinis (citizenship by descent), not jus soli (citizenship by birthright), which differs from the U.S. system.
If a pregnant woman goes to Russia and has her child in a russian hospital, is the child a russian citizen?
A child born in Russia to foreign parents is not automatically a Russian citizen. Russia does not grant unconditional birthright citizenship (jus soli); citizenship is usually acquired if at least one parent is a Russian citizen or if the child would otherwise be stateless.
Approximately 30 to 35 nations worldwide offer unrestricted birthright citizenship (often called jus soli or “right of the soil”), which automatically grants citizenship to children born within their territory regardless of their parents’ citizenship or immigration status. The vast majority of these countries are located in North, Central, and South America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina.
Pierre Tristam says
No googling needed. It’s not relevant what the situation is in China, Germany, Lebanon, Lesotho or Uranus. I don’t live in those countries or planets. Those countries don’t set my standards. This one does. The 14th Amendment does. If we’re ready to Goebbelize our amendments’ language, then we’re no longer who we pretend to be. Might as well be China.
Get over it says
Report the news Pierre. No one cares what you think, as you write an article than bashes commenters views. And Trump is president, so get over it already.
The dude says
Apparently YOU care what Pierre write since:
1. You’re here.
2. You take the time to comment.
Here’s a thought… maybe you can publish your own news site for local coverage… then you will be free to report as you see fit and slant your editorials towards the MAGA morons.
JC says
Are you this stupid? This is his site, he can do whatever he wants. You don’t have to visit this site at all like you can do whatever you want at your house. And considering you didn’t even put spaces in between your paragraphs makes you really look stupid.
Laurel says
Pierre has more followers than you. Get over it.
Pierre Tristam says
Get over it, instead of attacking me personally how about attacking the piece itself? It’d be more interesting, might tell us you’re capable of something other than yapping like Pavlov watching Fox, and heaven knows it’d be easy since my article is full of holes and could’ve been better written by a junior IB student majoring in chemistry. Here, I’ll get you started: it’s ridiculously hyperbolic (as always), the Orwell reference is lazy (everybody does it), the other literary references are just egghead signaling (Koestler? really?), going from expelling migrants to yellow-starred allusions to the Holocaust is a stretch (although in fairness to me the 1930s were full of fascist apologists too and look what that got us), and so on. See how easy it is? Do I have to do your work for you or are magazoids that incapable of putting two coherent thoughts together other than parroting idiotic putdowns?
Ed P says
Hello Pierre,
Touché.
I await the day when everyone recognizes that you find worth in logical/rational opposition as well praise.
Every relationship needs some form of tension to evolve and prevent boredom.
Pay dtot says
I care what Pierre thinks, thank you very much
Sherry says
@ get over it. . . Ditto what The dude says!
Just who are you to even try to tell Pierre Tristam what to publish on his “award winning” news web site. Simply because he is speaking out against the “convicted criminal” you apparently voted for does not make it OK for you to post your hate on the web site he created!
BTW, a Sezual Abuser and Convicted Felon will never be “my” President! Why is he yours? Have you really sunk so low that you would actually vote for such a person? You should really examine why you would do such a thing!
Laurel says
I’m a bit confused about You may be right’s point. Is it that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is wrong, all this time, simply because we haven’t worded it as other countries have? Are we to all follow suit to be justified? After all, our greatest strength, and success, is we’ve been known as the melting pot of the world. The Statue of Liberty was gifted to us as an appreciation and praise for our acceptance of others.
Fear and hatred keeps us divided. By being divided, we have less power to fight the corrupted. This division is intentional.
You May Be Right says
Someone once said, ” The times they are a-changing. The Statue of Liberty was gifted to the United States in 1886. Most European nations moved away from unconditional birthright citizenship (unrestricted jus soli) between the 1980s and the early 2000s, shifting toward parentage-based (jus sanguinis) systems. The point is, is jus soli, the granting of citizenship based on a single parent being present in a country at the time of birth, really reasonable in the United States today? Can our nation provide the benefits of citizenship (programs like social security, Medicare, and Medicaid) to everyone?
Laurel says
You: The answers are yes. Citizens, immigrants and undocumented workers can, and will, pay into the system.
This country, if run by those who are not 100% self motivated, can, in fact, fix the system instead of giving tax breaks to those who can comfortably, and easily live without them, while shrinking the programs that help those who need them, or have paid into them all there working lives ( and employer input as well). Now, the group that is sinking, is the middle class.
No matter which party is in charge, we lose some of our rights. This party, however, has far more plans to reduce our rights than normal. We’re only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
You May Be Right says
You seem to think that people in this country without authorization are paying into our systems. How’s that work? Without authorization (No Visa, not asylum-seeking, or no TPS) means without a Social Security number. How does an employer deduct taxes without a Social Security number? How does an individual pay taxes without a Social Security number? They don’t. But someone in the country with authorization can walk into any federally or state-funded hospital and receive medical care. It’s the law. All citizens who pay taxes, no matter what party they subscribe to, pay for that medical care. And yes, insurance companies are horrible in that they too often inflate the cost of healthcare, but it still costs all the citizens of our country. No one should be in the United States without authorization. Period.
Laurel says
“Yes, undocumented workers do pay into Social Security. In 2023, they contributed an estimated $26.2 billion to the Social Security Trust Fund, even though most will never collect benefits from it.”
– americanimmigrationcouncil.org, cbpp.org
Laurel says
Works for me… literally!
Canary says
Undocumented immigrants frequently work using someone else’s social security number. They pay into the system via payroll deduction but never receive benefits. Even if they work off the books, they still pay taxes via sales tax and other sorts of point of sale taxes such as utilities and vehicle registrations and property taxes. Also, plenty of people that I’m sure you DON’T object to simply because they are born here aren’t paying into the system and are using it, because they are disabled, they are retired, their income is too low to owe taxes, any number of reasons. Or do you think those people should be made to go away too?
Sherry says
@you may. . . “YOU” need to get educated beyond Fox BS. Laurel is absolutely correct that undocumented migrants pay millions into our social services systems.
In addition. . . they pay sales taxes every time they buy anything, and utility taxes (directly and indirectly through rent).
If we just created a “reasonable” pathway (including background checks) for their citizenship, our entire country would benefit.
Sherry says
Thank you Laurel, and right on!
Massive change needs to happen to our immigration system. If we can just make it simple and easy for good folks (background checks) to enter our country and start on their path to citizenship, of course they will then be “in the system” paying taxes for their future benefits. We have “ILLEGAL” migrants merely because our government refuses to create a reasonable way to be “LEGAL” immigrants!
Under the trump fascist regime, even those “in the lengthy process” of becoming citizens are threatened and thrown in horrific “concentration camps” by trump’s gestapo, ICE!
Sherry says
@youmay be. . . yes, of course the richest country in the world could afford SOME “safety net” benefits to all legal immigrants if only the federal government would close the tax “loopholes” and require the billionaires to actually “PAY” their fair share of taxes! Some “billionaires” have tax years where they pay ZERO!
PaulT says
Hey @ ‘you may be right’. If you don’t agree with the US Constitution you caould always leave the country.
You May Be Right says
PaulT its not a matter of agreeing with the constitution. We’re talking about the 14th Amendment here. That amendment was written and passed into law in 1866. Not by the founding fathers. But by elected politicians who were struggling to rid the United States of all vestiges of slavery. Those elected realized that, in 1866, the state of our union had changed from that of 1776. I suggest it’s changed a alot more since 1866 and hope that our elected officials do something to immortalize those changes, rather than pointing to laws written over 100 years ago.
Skibum says
“I suggest it’s changed a alot more since 1866 and hope that our elected officials do something to immortalize those changes, rather than pointing to laws written over 100 years ago.”
You mean those antiquated ones like the 2nd Amendment, that republicans just love to expand and expand, now meaning ALL types of weapons including AR-15 assault rifles? The weapon of choice for mass school shooters that were never envisioned by our founding fathers?
So you agree that our elected officials should DO SOMETHING to change the 2nd Amendment that was written over 100 years ago? If so, I and many, many others heartily AGREE that, unlike justice Clarence Thomas, our U.S. Constitution is a living document and should continue to be updated to better align with today’s society!!!
Pogo says
Thank you.
Endless dark money says
Deport Marco Rubio !
RD says
China is an enemy of the US. They are sending expecting mother’s here for a month to have a kid and then go back to China. This has already happened thousands of times. China is building an army of so called American citizens that will eventually work to take the country down. At least just stop the practice now and dont worry about those that already have been given citizenship. Stop the bleeding now.
jacyjones says
Oh pluuueeeze it was your party who opened up and sold all our jobs to China in 2001 and enriched them so much so until they became their own superpower. Way to go, enriching a communist party country, republicans, while impoverishing your own people, while enriching a ‘few’. Ugh, the GOP is such a corrupt, disgusting, greedy party, full of gaslighters, groomers and liars.
The dude says
Are they “eating the pets” too?
Laurel says
RD: Oh my goodness! Are you watching Twilight Zone reruns? If China wanted to take the US down all they have to do is shut down our grid. They are creating robot soldiers now, they don’t need an “American army”! What you claim is WWII imaginings.
People who do have babies here, and they do, is because they want their child to be a citizen of a free country. Now, they’re probably not so sure anymore, with the current government repeals of our rights. So, you can exhale, if you don’t mind losing your rights.
This is more fear and hate tactics. Don’t get sucked in any further.
The dude says
All China has to do to “take us down” is wait. MAGA is doing the work for them.
Sherry says
Right On, “as usual” The dude!
Laurel says
No, China doesn’t have to wait, it has the capability now. Maga simply buys what the oligarchs, the con men, the Heritage Foundation, and the Federalist Society sells them, with control through Project 2025. There is a different agenda, though the oppression is similar.
Fortunately, many maga are beginning to see how they have been manipulated with bits of truth sprinkled within the lies.
We need to stop knocking maga, and support them through their acceptance of their disappointment and seeing what has been done to them.
Sherry says
@rd. . . Just curious, is it hard to use your computer or phone from under your bed? Doesn’t it get dusty under there? It seems like it may be affecting your brain.
PaulT says
Suffering from paranoia @RD?
Why would we need an army of Chinese birthright babies to ‘take the country down’ when Trump and his infestation of MAGAmites are successfully destroying our democracy?
BIG Neighbor says
After Katrina, I thought….I wonder how vulnerable we are to attack from the inside, seeing how poor our command and control was. From that perspective, a correction was in order. But this is is another planet entirely. Sad to think a-hole stands for put the A back in ’merica…undocumented people does not mean indignant or without sovereignty, otherwise we have learned nothing when it comes to the native tribes that watched foreigners claim rights to their life, via inherit land rights. Come on, every good ’merican likes a touchdown, dance in the end zone, right? You cross the line and your in! But wait…I think that’s a penalty now, isn’t it? Between the mob and online gambling, seems like our inalienable rights are at stake here by a roll of the dice. Talk about follow the fear, fallow the money.
DaleL says
To me, the 14th Amendment is clear. It applies to the person who is born or naturalized in the United States. It makes no mention of the person’s parents. Whether the parents are in the U.S. legally, on a tourist Visa, or are citizens makes no difference. The only issue is whether a newborn child is actually subject to the jurisdiction (laws) thereof (U.S.). Is the child the property of its parent(s) or guardian(s)? Isn’t it the parent(s)/guardian(s) who in fact follow the various laws the affect the child. A young child cannot even be charged with a crime.
U.S. citizens, who live overseas, are required by law to file income taxes. A child who was born in the U.S., but raised in a foreign country, is not subject to the jurisdiction (laws) of the U.S. When they reach adulthood, they are not expected to file U.S. taxes. In short, they are not U.S. citizens.
However, should any person, once they become an adult, who has been born in the U.S., become subject to U.S. jurisdiction, (By returning to the U.S., or other U.S. controlled location such as a U.S. embassy.), they would then meet the requirements of the 14th Amendment and be U.S. citizens.
My interpretation is not quite the same as citizenship upon birth, but rather close.
Deborah Coffey says
Brilliantly written and crystal clear, Pierre. Too bad so many haters come here to vomit on you. But, they continue to vomit on anyone not like them. And, that’s exactly why our country’s democracy, economy, and culture are sitting on the cliff’s edge.
Virginian says
I am surprised no one has mentioned paragraph 5 of the 14th amendment. It would appear that it is Congress that has the right to determine the meaning of the article.
Pierre Tristam says
Paragraph 5: “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.” Enforcement is not interpretation.
Time is short says
Our country is divided because we have so many people here now who fundamentally believe in a completely different way of life. I have nothing in common with far left democrat liberals just like they have absolutely nothing in common with me. I could name a list of core beliefs that we do not and never will agree on but that’s been done so many times it’s useless. Our society is rushing towards civil war and once it’s over hopefully all you libs who survive will be forced to move to California!
DaleL says
@Time is short. I believe you are mistaken. You should study the history of our great nation.
There has already been a civil war. The slavery supporting, Confederate secessionists lost. Part of the result is the 14th Amendment. Americans defeated the secessionist repeatedly from Pea Ridge in Arkansas, Shiloh in Tennessee, and Antietam in Maryland. All these battles occurred in 1862. In 1863, Vicksburg fell to the American troops commanded by Ulysses S. Grant. With that, the Confederacy was cut off from trade with Europe. In 1864, American troops commanded by William Tecumseh Sherman marched through Georgia. Despite all this, Confederate traitors continued fighting into 1865.
Our nation was founded on the principle of freedom and equality. It was flawed by the cruel compromise over slavery, but the Civil War ended that flaw. Unfortunately, there are those today who want to return to that evil past. They seemingly want to glorify the Civil War. They are not those who follow the teachings of Jesus, which includes to love thy neighbor.
Pew Research reports that the most wealthy Americans are more likely to be Democrats. Pew also reports that the more educated a person is the more likely they are to be liberal. If there is to be another civil war, it is not likely that the best educated, most wealthy will lose.
You May Be Right says
DaleT, check your dates. Slavery ended in the Northern United States as early as 1777 (Vermont). It ended in Pennsylvania in 1780 and Massachusetts in 1783. New York eliminated slavery in 1827. President Abraham Lincoln declared slaves in Confederate states still in rebellion to be free in 1863, and the 13th Amendment made that the law of the land in 1865. The 14th Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law at all levels of government, creating federal laws that supersede state and local laws.
DaleL says
@You May Be Right:
Ending slavery did not grant the former slaves or their children citizenship. Immediately after the Civil War, former Confederate states passed what are known as “Black Codes”. Black Codes kept the former slaves from voting or holding office. They were were possible because the emancipation did not grant citizenship.
“Significantly, the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment overrode the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision of 1857, which held that African Americans could not be American citizens, whether enslaved or free.”
https://usconstitution.net/14th-amendment-birthright-citizenship/
Laurel says
No, we’re not rushing towards a civil war, and no, you will not take over the whole country sans California.
The young among us are starting to draw the line. They now believe that the American dream is out of site, and they have had enough, and they are correct. They see corporations get tax breaks and subsidies, and the wealthy get tax breaks they can comfortably live without, while the young, middle class cannot afford food and see no future.
If anything, I would not offer to “let them eat cake.”
Sherry says
@ time is short. . . You’ve really got some nerve implying that anyone who doesn’t think like you should move. You need to wake up and realize that Maga is most certainly NOT in the majority in our country. If you do not want to live peacefully alongside those that are educated, believe in abiding by the constitution, believe in “equal” justice under the law, believe in the “free” press, believe in rights to privacy/controlling your own body/marrying the person you love, believe in leaders who set a good “legal and moral” example. . . maybe it is “YOU” who should move. . . maybe to China or Russia!
Concerned Citizen says
As a multi generation American born and raised. This is concerning.
Not long ago ICE was in our area. I was at a gas pump pumping gas when agents wandered over. And asked where I was from. I stated born and raised in Atlanta. They proceeded to run my plates and license. After being satisfied that I was not a threat to our nations sovereignty it was suggested I carry additional documents. Even though I have a REAL ID and Retired Military Card. I asked what would be sufficient and was told a certified copy of birth certificate.
Yes this is happening right here in our own country/state/city. And not just to folks of ethnic or demographic diversity. You must carry zee papers comrade. To travel safely. Reminds me of some of those other countries I spent time in. While serving in the Airforce.
Pierre Tristam says
Sorry this happened. Not surprised it did. Disgusting that it is happening. It is inadmissible, unforgivable, to be accosted that way and for that moment to be treated like a suspect. That’s precisely what the ICe mentality has lost sight of: our right to be let alone. “If you’re doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about.” No. I shouldn’t have to prove that I’m doing nothing wrong. Not even close. None of us need to be carrying “papers.” If you’re fishing around for something illegal, probable cause be damned, you, ice, are in the wrong. It’s as if the 4th Amendment has been interned.
BIG Neighbor says
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyEMbIRYVGA
Pierre Tristam says
Good video. Though after learning that lesson I wonder why the students allowed the teacher to “Let’s begin” without demanding a return of the student who’d been expelled.
Concerned Citizen says
Pierre,
Unfortunately. I have to fault my fellow Americans. For allowing this to happen. By not voting responsibly.
Laurel says
Concerned: I, too, am sorry this is happening. It’s hard to convince the right that all this is not about immigration, it’s about controlling the masses. Control through legislation, control through religion and control through peer review. Control over women and control through food and shelter.
Sadly, so many are falling for it.
Laurel says
“America”
Far,
We’ve been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star
Free,
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream
On the boats and on the planes
They’re coming to America
Never looking back again,
They’re coming to America
Home
Don’t it seem so far away
Oh, we’re traveling light today
In the eye of the storm
In the eye of the storm
Home
To a new and a shiny place
Make our bed and we’ll say our grace
Freedom’s light burning warm
Freedom’s light burning warm
Everywhere around the world
They’re coming to America
Ev’ry time that flag’s unfurled
They’re coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They’re coming to America
Got a dream they’ve come to share
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
They’re coming to America
Today, Today,
Today, Today, Today
My country ’tis of thee (today)
Sweet land of liberty (today)
Of thee I sing (today)
Of thee I sing
Today, Today, Today
Today, today, today……
– Neil Diamond
Sherry says
Thank you Laurel!