Posted on 11/02/2018 4:17:05 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Barack Obama spoke out Friday against President Donald Trump’s continued claims that he can end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who aren’t citizens.
“A president doesn’t get to decide on his own who’s an American citizen and who’s not,” Obama told a crowd in Florida while stumping for two Democratic candidates there: Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee who is running for governor, and Sen. Bill Nelson, who is seeking a fourth term.
“That’s not how the Constitution of the United States works,” added Obama, who once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. “That’s not how the Bill of Rights works. That’s not how our democracy works.”
Obama is the latest person to strike down Trump’s repeated claims that he can end birthright citizenship, a right enshrined under the 14th Amendment.
“The Constitution does not — I say that to the media — does not require it. Read it. Because illegal aliens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,” Trump insisted Wednesday at a rally in Florida, doubling down on comments he made to Axios earlier in the week.
“We will keep the criminals, the drug dealers, we will keep them all out of our country,” he added. “We will get rid of all of this. We will end finally birthright citizenship.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has also challenged Trump’s claims, telling Kentucky’s WVLK radio station on Tuesday that the president “obviously cannot do that.”
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The 14th Amendment was ratified to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
Period.
Obama has always hated the Constitution because it says he is not eligible to be President.
The 14th was never intended to apply to foreigners.
Any foreigners.
The Supreme Court stretched it to cover the children of foreigners here legally in Wong Kim Ark, but did not extend it to illegal aliens.
That was done administratively sometime in the 1960’s.
An executive order can remedy that.
Children of foreign nationals inherit the nationality(ies) of their foreign national parent(s).
That’s why the children of foreign nationals are NOT natural born citizens.
The same principle is also how Ted Cruz acquired US citizenship being born in Canada. A citizen by extension of his mother’s citizenship, but not a natural born citizen.
That walking quota clown show couldn’t get the Constitution meaning correct if it hit him in his non existent cojones.
Obama has an obvious vested interest in seeing the current, incorrect interpretation of the 14th Amendment continue.
Obamadork is a national embarrassment.
His speech today was full of lies. Very exasperating. Shep Smith was playing it live.
we do NOT need any more anti-American Bullsheit from the former IIIC (Illegal Invader in Chief)
may Obammy learn how to keep his big yap shut for a change!
and besides, he’s totally ignorant about this matter, other than he wants to flood USA with more of his evil ilk from all 56 Moslem Krapistans
Obamadork is a national embarrassment.
So would Barry like to explain that DACA thing again?
The test as to whether or not you are “Under the Jurisdiction of” is simple:
Can you be Tried for Treason??
YES- You are under the Jurisdiction of
NO- YOU ARE NOT!!!
Only Citizens can be tried for Treason
BO claims to be a “Constitutional scholar,” when in fact he’s just an affirmative action bumbling shrieking idiot without his two teleprompters.
He’s back to smoking pot and playing video games for hours and hours every day.
It’s the pot. Just lay off the pot, BO.
Just another sneaky, lying illegal alien whining about America’s constitution!
0bama worried about getting deported?
“The 14th Amendment was ratified to grant citizenship to freed slaves. Period.”
Not entirely...
From Wiki...
“United States v. Wong Kim Ark
In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person who...
is born in the United States
of parents who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of a foreign power
whose parents have a legal permanent domicile and legal residence in the United States
whose parents are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the foreign power to which they are subject
becomes, at the time of his birth, a citizen of the United States by virtue of the first clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.”
Note, illegals fail test #3.
So, Huffpo, explain to me how a former constitutional law professor can be so smaaaht that he refers to our federal system of governance as a "democracy?
The “magic negro” just won’t shut up and go away.
What? Did Obama get out of federal prison early?
Hey Obama, Trump has the pen and the phone now.
Barry has gone back to his roots—he’s just a dime-a-dozen cheap B rate Al Sharpton style “community organizer.”
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