Posted on 08/26/2015 10:37:19 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Last night on Donald Trump's least favorite Fox News program, The Kelly File, GOP contender Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) also went after the suddenly controversial interviewer, complaining that a question she kept pressing him on—whether he'd deport the U.S.-citizen children of illegal immigrants, as Donald Trump would—is "the question every mainstream media liberal journalist wants to ask." Sick burn!
Anyway, the question—which Cruz, to his discredit, refused to answer—is an important one for those many 2016 GOP candidates (Trump, Cruz, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, etc.) who have come out against the birthright citizenship established by the plain text of the 14th amendment. We get that you wish to change the existing rules somehow (Trump and Ron Paul, to name two people, think you can do so without a constitutional amendment), but what to do about the estimated 4 million American-citizen kids having at least one illegal-immigrant parent? Given the rapid Trumpification of the 2016 nominating process, and Cruz's demonstrated readiness to strip U.S. citizenship in other contexts, the issue of forcibly expelling Americans from their native country—regardless of how appalling—is a live one, demanding clarification.
Here's a detail that rarely gets brought up during nonsense-filled immigration debates: President Barack Obama has been a much bigger deporter-in-chief than George W. Bush. The Department of Homeland Security issued 2 million deportations during Bush's tenure; Obama blew through that number in Year Five of his presidency:
The administration has since made a sharp policy turn, triggering some of the heated debate we've seen over the past year, but there's no guarantee that his late-breaking deportation slowdown would be carried on by the next Democratic president, particularly if it's restrictionist Bernie Sanders.
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Actually, he correctly pointed out—repeatedly to the ever-so-dense Megyn, that CONGRESS makes the laws and that as President his duty is to enforce them.
It’s not a question, it’s a statement. There is no ‘answer’ to a statement.
I like your thinking. Cruz should ask Megyn if it’s wrong to enforce sentences on other types of criminals who have children. Do we not send parents to jail for breaking and entering just because it’d be heartless to break up a family?
What US citizens ???
Anchor babies ???
Theyre not US citizens..
I thought he could think on his feet. The answer that I would have is expected is “American citizens will not be deported, but the question is who, by the law, is an American citizen?”
Deportation of the parents is less “heartless” than jailing parents.
We allow the parents to take their children with deportation. The government does not break up the family. Only the parents decided to do that.
I wish he had said something along the lines of, “That’s not the right question, Megyn. Birthright citizenship to children of people here illegally was a mistake based on a misinterpretation of the 14th, written only in a footnote to another Supreme Court decision. I will ask Congress to clarify the 14th, as they have the power to do, and end birthright citizenship for children of people who are not in the U.S. legally. That will solve the problem.”
He did not evade it. It was a ridiculously framed question. The media think they are in charge of the whole thing. They are not. It is their job to report news, not make news.
What kind of people move and leave their children behind?
These reporters aren't thinking straight.
The law would have to be changed to allow children to stay with all criminal parents after they have been apprehended in jails or detention facilities and I don’t see that happening.
You may as well ask 'how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?'
I’d like to deport all naturalized Muslims and non Citizen Muslims. They are members of a cult that advocates the overthrow of America
Us? Heartless?
That rings a bell.
Perry glowering at Americans....saying we were
“heartless” for opposing in-state tuition for illegals.
Perry flopped back then...and he flopped now.
“Mr. Cruz, when you host your annual Baby Seal Clubbing and Kitten Barbeque on Labory Day weekend, will you publicly state that you have stopped beating your wife?”
Trump is correct about the minor children if their is no appointed guardian or a relative who will be responsible for the children. They can be forced to leave with the parents.
Cruz avoided answering the question.
People like to quote U.S. vs. Wong Kim Ark as precedent for birthright citizenship for illegals, but from what I’ve read, it simply doesn’t apply. The guy in question, Ark, a Chinese-American citizen (by our present standards) was born to Chinese people who were not U.S. citizens but who WERE here LEGALLY. And that is a huge difference. To my knowledge, the Supreme Court has never directly ruled that a child born to people who were here ILLEGALLY is a citizen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark
He made a bad call. Other than ideologues who would crawl over broken glass to vote for him anyway, many people watching who care about this issue will just see him as another ducking, dodging, disingenuous politician.
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