Can the government take away citizenship? What does that mean? Doesn't it make us all vulnerable? [View all]

[ProfessorPlum]

I keep hearing Trump talking about taking away birthright citizenship - but is that even possible? Is there a precedent? I would think that one of the rights of US citizenship is to not have it stolen from you - especially without some kind of due process.

But once your citizenship is revoked, you lose all of the other rights you are supposed to have as a citizen - rights against search and seizure, cruel punishment, self-incrimination, etc.

If we let Trump declare that a bunch of our fellow citizens are suddenly stripped of their citizenship, it makes us all vulnerable to having the government just declare us un-persons and do whatever they want with us.