Posted on 08/17/2015 1:46:45 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Donald Trump laid out some details of his immigration plan in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" this weekend.
Trump, who has been criticized in recent weeks for failing to give particulars on his immigration promises, said he will rescind President Obama's executive orders and end birthright citizenship.
As part of it, Trump said he wants to rescind President Obama's executive orders on immigration; deport many of those in the U.S. illegally while providing an expedited return process for "the good ones;" and do away with automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil.
The Trump campaign said the policy, known as birthright citizenship, is the "biggest magnet" for illegal immigration.
"They have to go," Trump said on NBC's "Meet the Press," of families living in the U.S. illegally and having a child, adding: "What they're doing, they're having a baby. And then all of a sudden, nobody knows ... the baby's here."
Judge Andrew Napolitano explained this morning on "America's Newsroom" what Trump can and cannot do on immigration. He said that Trump's promise to deport children born in America to illegal immigrant mothers is "prohibited by the Constitution."
"The Constitution says very clearly, whoever is born here - no matter the intent of the parent - is a natural-born citizen. He could not change that. Even if he were to change the Constitution, it would not affect people who had already been born here. It would only affect people not yet born here," said Napolitano.
He added that any president can rescind an executive order of a predecessor. But the judge pointed out that every undocumented immigrant that Trump intends to deport would be entitled to a hearing and an appeal.
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At least if this ever has to go to the Supreme Court we can thank GW Bush for John Roberts being there for us...again. < /sarcasm>
“They can always take the kid home to Mexico with ‘em.”
YEP
What Constitution? The judiciary hasn’t needed that old rag in the last six and a half years. Now some judge thinks we should read it. LOL
Judge Napolitano didn’t hear what I heard. Trump said they can leave their “citizen” kids here to be adopted out or take them with them back to their home countries.
And then .. we should also thank Mr. JEB Bush who insisted his brother appoint Mr. Roberts; with assurances that Mr. Roberts was a “conservative” .. which is horse-hockey. And, is the reason I will never, ever vote for Jeb Bush.
Don’t know about Mexico, but our grandson was born in Chile to American parents on a tourist visa. At 18 years of age he could obtain a Chilean passport as a Chilean citizen.
However, he had to be at the age of majority to make his own decision. Meanwhile, he was under the jurisdiction of the US on a US passport.
The judge is explaining the obvious. Trump didn’t say he would personally change that policy. But it can be changed by a new Supreme Court ruling, by an Act of Congress limiting the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, or by amending the Constitution. All those are long term goals and may be less necessary as illegal aliens stop coming and begin leaving.
“Trump can win on this clear statement alone”
Correct
I think he is too.
You have some excellent ideas-this would pay them to self-deport, and at the same time take at least some of the burden off legal taxpayers in the meantime.
I'm sick and tired of the ruling establishment insisting upon total compliance with every possible Constitutional interpretation usually within what they've called the "penumbra", which of course they are free to define whichever way suits them.
Then they turn around and flat ignore Constitutional provisions that are there in plain english.
Its gotta stop.
I wish people would remember that, and that someone like Trump would blast it in his speeches, about how they dealt with this problem of not wanting to separate kids from their families in their rush to return Elian to the Workers’ Paradise. They just returned him, at the point of a gun no less.
simple solution, executive order under the excuse of “national security”
and BINGO anything is legal!
“It worked for Ike and his Administration, and it can work again.”
Once the illegals realized Ike meant business, many self deported.
Exactly. Turn off the goodies and see what happens. Half would be gone within 30-45 days.
Once the illegals realized Ike meant business, many self deported.
They always do....look what happened when AZ was allowed to enforce their immigration law. Illegals fled AZ, by the thousands...either back home, or to other states that would take them in.
Trump knows this. That’s why he’s not worried about how to go about it.
We don’t even need mere clues when it comes to Jeb, in the current political atmosphere, he feels perfectly emboldened to just say that he wants to bring in more illegals and reward tham all for breaking the law, with entitlements and priviliges which taxpaying, law-abiding citizens don’t even get, though we do get to foot the bill (including the hidden costs such as illegals murdering citizens with impunity).
And even then, in the days before the levels of record-keeping now available to us, he was able to just bodily deport huge numbers of them in Operation Wetback.
I agree 1000%, straight up originalist here.
“look what happened when AZ was allowed to enforce their immigration law. Illegals fled AZ, by the thousands.”
I watched it first hand. Interstate 10 was flooded with illegals leaving AZ.
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