Resurfaced clips from top Democrats echoing Trump on birthright citizenship spark online uproar: 'Wow' (Dingy Harry in 1993)

Fox News ^ | 4/12/26 | Andrew Mark Miller

[Libloather]

As birthright citizenship is debated in the Supreme Court, resurfaced videos of top Democrats echoing the argument of the Trump administration sparked a conservative uproar on social media.

"If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant?" Sen. Harry Reid said on the Senate floor in 1993.

"No sane country would do that. Right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and [a] guarantee of full access to all public and social services this society provides — and that’s a lot of services."

Reid, who served in the Senate as a Democrat for 30 years and was Senate majority leader for eight years, was speaking about the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993, which he introduced. The legislation was a broad immigration reform package that included a provision to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to mothers who were neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents.

Reid, who died in 2021 at the age of 82, ultimately changed his tune on the legislation and said in 2018 that the bill was a "mistake."

Many on social media quickly pointed to Reid’s lofty stature within the Democratic Party and wondered aloud why he is not labeled "racist" the same way Republicans who oppose birthright citizenship often are.

"WOW," conservative influencer Libs of TikTok posted on X. "Senator Harry Reid, a DEMOCRAT, introduced a bill in 1993 to END birthright citizenship for illegal aliens .But if Trump wants to do it, Democrats call it ‘rAcIsT.’"

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: anchorbabies; birthright; citizenship; democrats; online; oops

[Libloather]

Dig him back up. Need that vote.

[MikelTackNailer]

I was going to cook a chicken but dropped it on American ground.

Had to leave it be, being a new citizen and all.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Unfortunately, none of this matters. The media will always give the Dems a pass. Go back to the 1980s and you’ll see the Dems sounding more anti-abortion than Cardinal Dolan. Listen to a Dick Gephardt speech - he’s was MAGA before Donald Trump. The Dems actually used to be for the working man. It all gets whitewashed. Being a Dem means never having to explain your past positions.

[redinIllinois]

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