I learned about the Supreme Court’s enabling of Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship wedged in the backseat between an inconsolable baby and a toddler lecturing me on how to be a machine. Their safety— and mine— is the legacy of birthright citizenship. My great-grandparents and grandparents received US citizenship through this foundational American right. He said something to the effect of it being pointless to entertain those what-ifs. I was too nauseous to counter that clearly he didn’t have enough inherited trauma to understand the situation.