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Exclusive: Trump Pledges Executive Order on ‘Day One’ of Presidency to End Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens, ‘Birth Tourism’
Breitbart ^ | 30 May 2023 | MATTHEW BOYLE

Posted on 05/30/2023 10:56:48 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024, rolled out a new policy pledge on Tuesday in which he promised if elected he would sign an executive order on day one of his second term in office effectively ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and so-called “birth tourism.”

The policy proposal, contained in one of his Agenda 47 videos his campaign released, was obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of its public release.

“As part of my plan to secure the border, on day one of my new term in office I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump says in the slightly more than three-minute-long video.

Trump argues that birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens serves as a “magnet” and an “incentive” for future prospective migrants to attempt to enter the country illegally.

“Joe Biden has launched an illegal foreign invasion of our country allowing a record number of illegal aliens to storm across our borders,” Trump says in the video. “From all over the world, they came. Under Biden’s current policies, even though these millions of illegal border crossers have entered the country unlawfully, all of their future children will become automatic U.S. citizens. Can you imagine? They’ll be eligible for welfare, taxpayer-funded healthcare, the right to vote, chain migration, and countless other government benefits, many of which will also profit the illegal alien parents. This policy is a reward for breaking the laws of the United States and is obviously a magnet helping draw the flood of illegals across our borders. They come by the millions and millions and millions.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: birthtourism; illegals; migrantsurge; preachingtothechoir; presdjtrump; ronstillosingby56pts; trump; trump2024; winner; winning
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To: SoConPubbie

The Court could overturn Wong Kim Ark.


21 posted on 05/30/2023 11:16:56 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: SoConPubbie

I have nothing against the goal but I am getting a bit leery of governing by executive order by both parties. I’d rather something of more permanence like say actual legislation or amendment.


22 posted on 05/30/2023 11:18:54 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I think we are the only stupid country which allows birth citizenship from tourists.


23 posted on 05/30/2023 11:19:05 AM PDT by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: lastchance

You expect that from Uniparty in DC? Really????


24 posted on 05/30/2023 11:19:55 AM PDT by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: Owen

“...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,”

Not sure but I believe it is this clause that has been the subject of debate on the question of whether all those born in the U.S. being citizens.


25 posted on 05/30/2023 11:20:53 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Wouldn’t ending this require a Constitutional Amendment? Or getting control of the border . . .


26 posted on 05/30/2023 11:21:04 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: entropy12

While I definitely support this policy change, promising this again five years after he was supposed to already do it is too little too late.

Trump targeting birthright citizenship with executive order (2018)

https://www.axios.com/2018/10/30/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order


27 posted on 05/30/2023 11:22:59 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Do you really believe Trump when he says Cuomo did better, and DeSantis will raise taxes by 23%? )
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To: hanamizu

No SCOTUS decision on point.

Lots of “judicial noticing” going on, though.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/542/507/

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004)
Overview Opinions Materials
Granted:
January 9, 2004
Argued:
April 28, 2004
Decided:
June 28, 2004
Annotation
PRIMARY HOLDING
U.S. citizens may be designated as enemy combatants, but due process rights still apply to any U.S. citizens in detention. They also have the right to a hearing on enemy combatant status before a neutral tribunal.


28 posted on 05/30/2023 11:23:38 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: SoConPubbie

While Trump’s critics will undoubtedly find something about this to complain about, it should be remembered that even talking about doing such a thing was taboo in American politics before Trump came on the scene.

Democrats and Republicans alike wouldn’t dare raise the subject. In pre-Trump politics, suggesting it would open you up to a barrage of attacks for being heartless, racist, etc., that would be tantamount to political suicide. Remember when Cruz talked about it being a dead issue because the Constitution simply didn’t allow it? But Trump knew it was BS. And he knew the public overwhelmingly agreed with him. He knew the emperor had no close and said so.

Now it’s an acceptable topic for discussion. Ted Cruz even supports it now, or at least says he does. Trump spent his first term focusing on stopping the flow of new illegals and deporting the worst of the worst who were already here. That he plans to finish the job in a second term is good news.


29 posted on 05/30/2023 11:24:34 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: SoConPubbie

BS.

For starters, he can’t do that.

For seconds, that promise would disappear the night he got elected.

And finally, the GOP is probably trying to figure out a way to remove Trump for all ballots.


30 posted on 05/30/2023 11:26:43 AM PDT by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: SoConPubbie

Just like he did in 2016!


31 posted on 05/30/2023 11:30:01 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: Round Earther

United States v. Wong Kim Ark

Wong Kim Ark is the precedent that makes the great replacement scheme work. This ruling from 1898 is the root of absolute birthright citizenship in the United States. Thanks to Wong Kim Ark, if a pregnant illegal alien walks five feet over the border and then gives birth, that child is a U.S. citizen for life. If a Chinese tourist flies to Saipan and has a baby there, again, U.S. citizen for life.
The justification for this is the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

A detailed look at the 14th Amendment’s legislative history and the debates over similar laws at the time, though, makes it obvious that the authors of the law never intended it to cover the children of foreign nationals illegally in the United States:

The [1866] Civil Rights Act provided the first definition of citizenship after the ratification of the 13th Amendment, specifying “[t]hat all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.” Thus an overwhelming majority of Congress on the eve of the debate over the meaning of the citizenship clause of section 1 of the 14th Amendment were committed to the view that foreigners — and presumably aliens — were not subject to birthright citizenship. Most of those who voted in favor of the act were still serving in Congress when the 14th Amendment was under consideration. In fact, Senator Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act and chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, was an ardent supporter of Howard’s version of the citizenship clause. “The provision is, that ‘all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.’ That means ‘subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.’ . . . What do we mean by ‘subject to the jurisdiction of the United States?’ Not owing allegiance to anybody else.” Not owing allegiance to anybody else, subject to the complete jurisdiction of the United States, and not subject to a foreign power.[5] During debate over the Civil Rights Act, Senator Trumbull remarked that purpose of its citizenship clause was “[t]o make citizens of everybody born in the United States who owe allegiance to the United States.”

[National Review]
Today, the unspoken purpose of illegal immigration is to transform the country, inexorably, by allowing millions of illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. and have children who are instantly United States citizens.

A future Republican administration should directly challenge this travesty of the law, and the Supreme Court should correct it.


32 posted on 05/30/2023 11:32:53 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: adorno

Some might not come if anchor babies aren’t allowed.


33 posted on 05/30/2023 11:32:55 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: SoConPubbie

Constiturionlly, Automatic Citizenship of a baby requires parental citizenship. Absent that, it’s up to congress


34 posted on 05/30/2023 11:35:34 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Yes, someone would have to challenge Wong Kim Ark and the court would have to overturn the decision.

Until then, birthright citizenship will stand.


35 posted on 05/30/2023 11:36:50 AM PDT by Round Earther
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I’ve read somewhere that the Amendment framers assured the public that it excludes persons of foreign jurisdictions. Most likely the plan the whole time was to make language they can use for whatever purpose later.


36 posted on 05/30/2023 11:37:34 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus
This. Fruit of the poisonous tree. If you rob a bank, you don't get to keep the cash.
37 posted on 05/30/2023 11:38:37 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: SoConPubbie

BS. That opportunity came and went in the first two years of his administration when the GOP had control of the House, Senate and White House. If Trump were to win in 2024, he wouldn’t have such friendly turf.


38 posted on 05/30/2023 11:39:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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To: Fury

You claim that the strategy’s not good enough, but does the underlying issue even matter to you? I doubt it.

Politically speaking, birthright citizenship was a sacred cow before Trump came on the scene. It wasn’t discussed and if suggested, politicians both left and right would respond with a patronizing explanation of how it was a dead issue, that we had to live with.

If you’re looking for a better solution, your focus should be on Congress.


39 posted on 05/30/2023 11:39:56 AM PDT by mbrfl
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To: Golden Eagle

You are right, but I give him some slack coz he was a newbie elected politician. He may have learned a lot how DC works, and it is entirely possible (but not guaranteed) Trump will be more pro-active in his 2nd term.


40 posted on 05/30/2023 11:47:11 AM PDT by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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