They must actually READ THE CONSTITUTION !
Rush make the details of this discussion VERY CLEAR today.
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RUSH: ... I don’t think any elected Republican other than Trump…
- Even if they had made the promises Trump made,
But Trump hasn’t.
He doubles down.
- “Right. I’m gonna issue an executive order;
I’m gonna end birthright citizenship.”
- “All persons…”
Now, the 14th Amendment goes back to 1866.
I think it was ratified by Congress in 1866.
It was passed by Congress; ratified by the states two years later.
So in 1866, it was passed by Congress and ratified by the states in 1868,
and its original intent was
- to grant citizenship to slaves and their descendants.
It was a good thing.
Our Constitution was written so that mistakes at the founding could be corrected.
The vast majority of people knew slavery at the founding was untenable,
but they needed the union in order to fight the Revolutionary War.
They needed the southern states.
They needed unity to do that
- so they had to accept slavery,
and it happened in 1868 when the 14th Amendment passed.
It begins this way:
- “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the U.S. and of the state wherein they reside.”
The parts that birthright citizenship, uh, freaks have to delete are
- “naturalized”
and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
You cannot be !
You’re under some other country’s jurisdiction.
If you’re here illegally, you cannot possibly be naturalized.
Well, the birthright citizenship crowd —
- which wants to water down American culture and destroy Western civilization
So your born-here child absolutely is not a citizen.
This is what Trump is saying.
Trump is finally pushing back against an assumption that has been made because
- it was the path of least resistance, if you will.
As my friend McCarthy says,
- “You need somebody to break the furniture.”
Sometimes, you gotta remodel the house.
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RUSH: Okay, a little bit more background on the 14th Amendment here
- ’cause it’s gonna be relevant as the issue going forward.
Its purpose was to overrule the Dred Scott Decision !
Which was a horrible decision.
Dred Scott sanctioned slavery.
Roger Taney was the chief justice, forever the immortalized in infamy.
It held that black slaves were not citizens.
So Congress got into gear and passed the 14th Amendment.
It guaranteed that freed slaves would have all the privileges of citizenship by providing, quote,
- “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,”
- the drafters of the 14th Amendment had no intention of conferring citizenship on the children of aliens who happened to be born here.
This is why the original intent of founding documents is so important.
Quote, “This,” meaning the 14th Amendment…
- “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…”
There was an 1884 case, Elk v. Wilkins.
The Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Native Americans
- because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction.
Well, an illegal alien here is not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
They’re under the jurisdiction of where they came from if they’re here illegally.
Guess when this all changed ?
In the 1960s !
Concomitant with Senator Kennedy wanting to reopen…
We had shut down all immigration from ’21 to ’65.
Along comes Senator Kennedy in the pre-Chappaquiddick days wanting to reopen it
- for the express purpose of
- making sure the Democrat Party always had a permanent underclass of voters dependent on them and the government.
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RUSH: And, by the way, and even according to our leftist brothers and sisters at NPR report
- no nation in Europe confers birthright citizenship.
Okay !
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