Time to End Birthright Citizenship

American Thinker.com ^ | September 21, 2017 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Kaslin]

Donald Trump took a lot of heat when he announced his candidacy for President, stating that he would build a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville and make Mexico pay for it, all to keep Mexico’s “unwanted” and “undesirables” from flooding the United States. In August 2015, on the campaign trail, he shed light on a flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution that has caused much of the problem of illegal immigration.

That misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment, written to guarantee the citizenship rights of freed slaves after the Civil War, has morphed the amendment into a guarantee of birthright citizenship. Merely being born on American soil is said to make you a U.S. citizen. Sneak past the U.S. Border Patrol, have your baby, and you not only have a U.S. citizen but what is called an “anchor baby” allowing you to stay and bring others in under the banner of family reunification.

During the campaign, Trump correctly called the flawed concept of birthright citizenship the “biggest magnet” for illegal immigration. He would end it, and as for family reunification, Trump is all for it, just saying it should happen on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border. As the New York Post reported:

Trump described his expanded vision of how to secure American borders during a wide-ranging interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” and in a position paper he later released, saying that he would push to end the constitutionally protected citizenship rights of children of any family living illegally inside the US.

“They have to go,” Trump said. “What they’re doing, they’re having a baby. And then all of a sudden, nobody knows... the baby’s here.”

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[DoughtyOne]

The 14th Amendment DOES NOT justify birthright citizenship for illegal aliens.

It never has.

The Leftist word-smiths have misinterpreted the amendment for decades, and that needs to stop.

It might a good idea for President Trump to develop a legal finding, and incorporate it into an E.O. that merely expresses his administrations take on the issue.

He could write it in the same terms as he did the DACA.

Give Congress six months to clean up the 14th Amendment, or the practice of considering illegal aliens born here to be citizens, stops in six months.

[Fiddlstix]

Yes! You Got It Right!

[V K Lee]

D’rats tell a lie often enough, it soon becomes the truth when considered by all.

THIS MUST END! Just because ‘they’ said it doesn’t make it so. When did Congress show US it’s weakness? When the entire congress continued to allow THIS to happen again and again yet remaining silent on all transgressions which followed. THIS BODY is not a friend of this nation.

[FreedomNotSafety]

The Founders had good reason for birthright citizenship. But they didn’t have an anchor baby provision or favor family unification or envision free shi$% for everyone.

So, eliminate family unification and anchor baby laws. Then eliminate free sh$% for everyone. But keep birthright citizenship. We need every hard working independent hard scrabble orphan that we can get. So long as they are adopted by like minded citizens.

Immigrants made this country what it is. Welfare and immigration will destroy it. We can have one or the other but we cannot afford both.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Eliminate birthright citizenship. Retroactively - for the last 50 years.

[publius911]

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[omega4412]

If Congress passes a DACA law, family reunification provisions have to be eliminated. Otherwise "Dreamers" will just be teenage anchor babies.

[FreedomNotSafety]

What is the problem with birthright citizenship?

[MileHi]

What has SCOTUS said on the issue?

[Kaslin]

It does justify it for children born in the US of legal residents

[Kaslin]

even those children whose parent(s) were legal resident(s) when the child or the children were born before the parent(s) became naturalized citizen(s)?

Sorry, but I don't think you have a say in this.

[TheConservativeTejano]

Time to End Birthright Citizenship

I know this info. for a fact since I have seen the Mexicans from Mexico go to the U.S. Hospitals to bear their children so they can say they were born in the U.S. and then claim birth rite American citizenship.

This has been so abused by the Mexicans in particular since all they have to do is cross the border and any hospital will accept them.

I hope and wish that Sheriff Clarke in Wisconsin runs for the congressional seat of Paul Ryan since Paul is so inept and so out of touch with all the folks he represents plus all the other Americans out of his district.

I know that all elections are local and there is nothing to be done about that but he really is a Never Trumper and he will not say or do anything about the big time corruption and cheating that went on during that Piece of Work Imposter Obama administration.

My representative is Kevin Brady and I wish we had somebody to run against this guy also.

BTW, these Mexicans hate us big time!!!

[JimRed]

Here's how the first sentence of the 14th Amendment reads...

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Here is my proposed change (amending an amendment?)...

All persons born of parents legally residing in the United States, or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

I can live with the children of legal immigrants who are non-citizens being fellow citizens. And "residing in the United States" vs. "Present in the United States" prevents citizenship tourism.

[CMAC51]

It is not the 14th Amendment that needs changing. You only need to change two federal regulations slightly. 31 CFR 515.330 (Person within the United States) and 31 CFR 515.329 (Person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States). Modify those two regulations to exclude illegal and non-resident aliens and birth-rite citizenship for those two groups goes away.

[CincyRichieRich]

The editorial is nice and erudite and such, but we’re past edit time. It’s brass knuckles time with Ryan and McConnell.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you Fiddlstix.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree V K Lee, and a lot of folks are either waking up to it, darned tired of it, or both.

[DoughtyOne]

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