Yes, yes, yes!!
Please do this. It can’t happen soon enough!
YES! The 14th Amendment was NEVER meant to be used in this manner.
Bravo The Greatest Presidency of all time.
Trump wants this to go to the now conservative 5-4 Supreme Court so the constitutional controversy as to birthright citizenship of children born to illegals can be clarified hopefully on the side that the constitution never intended for children of illegals to have birthright citizenship. Clearly if it were a 5-4 liberal court he would not waste his time as the constitution is a mere afterthought to a liberal judiciary in legislative lockstep in enacting progressive policies.Only way of getting it to the Supreme Court is Congress passing a bill ending birthright for illegals. But this would fail passage because Senate Dems would filibuster it. So an executive order should do the trick in getting it in front of the Supreme Court to get the clarification on the issue hopefully ending birthright citizenship for illegals
It’s about time and make it effective immediately.
I wish our forefathers had set up a way for foreigners to become legal American citizens. /s/
JUST DO IT! This will be nullified by commie symp judges so will end up in the Supreme Court where we rule! And will rule even better within a year when Ruth GinzBorg whatever checks out all or halfway as in becoming a 100% drooler.
Here is the relevant text from the 14th Amendment:
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.
It all depends on the interpretation of the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
Are illegal entrants given that status?
Original intent of the 14th Amendment
Senator Jacob Howard (served on the Senate Joint Committee on Reconstruction, which drafted the 14th) clearly spelled out the intent of the 14th Amendment by stating:
"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country."
Sen. Lyman Trumbull, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, author of the Thirteenth Amendment, and the one who inserted the phrase (All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the States wherein they reside):
[T]he provision is, that 'all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.' That means 'subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.' What do we mean by 'complete jurisdiction thereof?' Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means.
Sen. W. Williams:
I understand the words here, 'subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,' to mean fully and completely subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Senator Jacob Howard states the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment published in the Congressional Record May 30, 1866.
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yes Mr President. end chain migration, now. build the wall quickly. the 14th Amendment is with us, not them.
He won’t be able to “terminate” it.
He is just getting the ball rolling. This is a Third Rail issue for the Rats.
Go Trump!
Brilliant caller on Rush made the point that
it is not the 14th Amendment to the Constitution that gives birth right citizenship to the children of illegals or people on temporary visas - it was the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
For a century after the 14th Amendment, such people did not receive citizenship.
It will probably require legislation to permanently fix the anchor baby loophole, but there is no problem with the Constitution.
About 275,000 babies were born to unauthorized-immigrant parents in 2014, or about 7% of the 4 million births in the U.S. that year, according to Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. This represented a decline from 330,000 in 2009, at the end of the Great Recession.
Births to unauthorized immigrants accounted for about one-in-three births (32%) to foreign-born mothers in the U.S. in 2014, according to the estimates.
Pew Research
The late, great Lawrence Auster had a fabulous write up on the subject of Birthright Citizenship not long before he died.
It is preserved here:The Truth About Birthright Citizenship
The summary page of all the discussions is here:The Birthright Citizenship Discussion at VFR
Everything here has been discussed before, and it's surprising that it's even controversial what Trump is doing, at least on the American Right.
It's not.
The most important reference in the article is the brief by Meese and Eastman:Brief of Amicus Curiae The Claremont Institute Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence In Support of Respondents
Larry also wrote The Path to National Suicide which explains how we got here, and he wrote it back when people didn't understand what was happening to us as a result of the Left's shenanigans.
The EO is probably a directive to the Federal Government to stop recognizing the children of illegal aliens as citizens for the purpose of issuing passports. There has been a long standing directive from the State Department to do so, absent any legal directive from the courts or the Congress - they just went ahead and did it. They may have some thin backing from Wong Kim Ark or even Plyler v. Doe, but not much. In any event, for the State Department, Trump definitely can change that, and in the long term, the Congress has authority to clarify the Fourteenth, they just haven't. There have been many bills to do so, all failing. But if we hold the Congress, I think that would not be the case.
And that is why we MUST hold the Congress in a week.
This will be overturned immediately... 14th Amendment is pretty clear on this...he must have an angle to it?
Trump may be the best president we’ve had since Lincoln, perhaps Washington. As much as I loved the Gipper, I’ve never seen such courage or read about such courage in a President.