This is perhaps the most misleading WaPo headline ever.
I am absolutely in no way a Trump supporter, but I agree with much of his immigration proposal.
Birthright citizenship can be changed in law, but would be subject to SCOTUS interpretation of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the Citizenship Clause.
Either the jurisdiction specifically refers to people the Federal Government recognized, and given the intent of the 14th Amendment this meant indigenous people and former slaves, or it refers to everyone in the country, regardless of government recognition. The latter would assume the only people not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” would be foreign diplomats.
Today’s SCOTUS would be a huge risk.
I do not think a Constitutional Amendment would be a hard sell. The U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and many other western nations restrict jus soli so one or more of the parents must be at least legal permanent residents.
I would also like an English as the official language law, and conversational English required as part of naturalization. I was always taught the 5-year waiting period between getting permanent residence and obtaining citizenship was because it was assumed with full immersion it took an average of five years to reach a conversational level of the local language.
I live in an upscale neighborhood in suburban Atlanta. My children go to a high-end daycare provider. There is a new problem in the preschools here. 4-year olds, born in the United States to foreign parents, come into Pre-K with no English language ability. They have been nannied by their grandparents, who speak no English, who were brought over under our chain migration policies. These older foreigners can buy into Medicare Part A for $407/month. They, like everyone, have to pay the $105/month for Part B, and whatever they choose for Part D. The premiums cover about half the average cost of Medicare—in other words, the taxpayers are subsidizing these older immigrants. These older foreigners get their Indian or Korean or Chinese television channels via satellite. The Koreans can listen to Korean radio on the AM dial. The Indians can go to local Bollywood movie multiplexes. This is an issue where legal immigrants do not assimilate.
Of course, the Latino’s (which include a large portion of illegal immigrants) not only have a half a dozen AM and FM radio stations, they can get Univision and Telemundo television free over the air. The era of immigrant babies being sat in front of the TV to watch Captain Kangaroo and Sesame Street and learn English through osmosis are over. They ended for poor Hispanics in large metro areas two decades ago, and they have ended for middle-class legal Asian immigrants since.
Secure the border. End birthright citizenship. End chain migration. Repeal and replace the 1965 Ted Kennedy immigration law. Stop the H-1B Visa fraud. Make English the official language.
A few things I noticed :
The love-in between Chuck Todd and himself on NBC Meet the Press Sunday was heart warming. (his second interview there in two weeks)
I can see a big movement of ‘conservative’ viewers from FNC to NBC now, HAHA. has Rush called for this yet??
When pressed he seemed to say he would ‘deport them all’ (’right on Don, just what we want to hear’ ) but he would also keep their families together (????) by working with them.
Keep in mind that many those ‘families’ are composed of mixed citizens, some US citizens, some illegals.
Then he said he wanted to end birth-right citizenship, but no details on that. (Does he take it away from those Americans already born who are related to illegals to 'keep those families together' ?)
He seemed in a hurry to get off of this line of questioning, as usual.(not that the others want to talk about it either)
Good get out of the U.S. And take your anchor babies with you
Good for Trump. They can come back when they are 18 legally. No special favors, no in state this or that.
You are keeping the family together and sorry just because your mother happened to be on US territory when you popped out does not make you a US citizen.
For those who wave the 14th amendment around they should read the 1924 Native American Citizenship Act.
If the fourteenth said what they have tried to twist it into being the act would not have been necessary. Since it was, then it does not.