Posted on 11/08/2018 3:48:10 AM PST by JBird77777
I don't know what President Trump has in mind for his proposed executive order regarding birthright citizenship, but it seems the easiest way is to order that federal government agencies cease treating those claiming birthright citizenship as U.S. citizens. For example, he could order passport applicants to submit not only a U.S. birth certificate, but also evidence that at least one parent was a U.S. citizen. It seems that this wouldn't be an improper attempt for the Executive Branch to make law. Rather, it would be the Executive Branch enforcing the Constitution, as it's required to do.
This order would of course immediately be challenged in the courts and probably stayed until ruled upon by the Supreme Court.
It seems unnecessary for Congress to pass new legislation, when all that's needed is judicial interpretation of the Constitution.
Nothing, we will probably never hear him speak of it again.
The election is over.
What evidence might that be?
Both my parents were born here but I have no proof i could or would show some bureaucrat.
I like it.
Let’s start by not using the leftist’s terminology. “Birthright citizenship” sounds like a good thing to those who are not informed on the matter. “Anchor baby fraud” would be a better term.
The removal of Sessions was a first step. I’m not convinced Sen Sessions was a very good lawyer. He lost the showdown on whether Trump could follow existing border law. Not to mention the whole Russia thing.
I wouldn’t attempt the birthright executive order with him in place. And I’d wait for the new senate before doing anything with confirmations. I’d also pick a hard nosed fighter for the new attorney general. I like Joe Digenova
Birth Certificates. I have them for my late parents, Born 1920 & 1927, and also for my also deceased maternal grandparents, born 1901 & 1911, as they were needed for identification for local, state & federal this & that years and years ago.
Since my father's parents died in the Great Depression (1930 & 1936) 11 plus years before I was born, I did not ever need them but if necessary, I would have found them.
I could show family pictures of father, grandfather, and great grandfather here in the US. But you’re right about birth certificates. How many actually easily have acess to their parents’ birth certificates?
Sessions got hornswagled by the Deep State” ethics advice he got. At least, that is the charitable version. I firmly believe he was a Deep State spy in the Trump campaign and Trump found out.
I don’t agree for one second that Sessions was a Deep State spy, thus being a fan of all these shenanigans.
But I do believe he was snookered in the recusal matter. And I believe that this job was way over his pay grade. It’s possible that the amount of corruption that he saw simply shocked him, then realized the recusal gave him no way to remedy it.
He was rendered impotent.
I realize there are some who think Sessions is going to turn on DJT. I’d be stunned. Sessions is smart enough to know that because of the recusal, that DJT had no choice but to let him go, in order for this circus to end.
And I suspect DJT did this with a heavy heart, although necessary.
““Anchor baby fraud” would be a better term.”
Bravo! Calling a spade a spade.
rwood
I’m sticking with “Deep State Spy”. It explains events much better.
we agree to disagree, my friend. I have no evidence of that but maybe you do.
That said, between Accosta and Sessions, it was a good day, wasn’t it?
I really do think that is about the only thing that explains Sessions being Trump’s BFF and becoming a pariah in one day.
Both my parents were legal immigrants and non-US citizens when I was born. I am a US citizen by birth and my only allegiance is to the US. The idea is to prevent illegal aliens from having anchor babies.
It has to be done soon, before the RATs take over.
Where the court will reject the practice and rule that being born in the US does grant citizenship.
The procedure to prompt a challenge is fine, but there is no real argument about what the Constitution says here. The words are clear and have meaning.
What does “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” mean? It can’t simply mean that one is physically present in the U.S., since obviously everyone who is born in the U.S. is present in the U.S.
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