Posted on 11/25/2024 12:28:13 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Among President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for immigration is a move to end a longstanding practice of granting something known as “birthright citizenship” to children whose parents are illegally present in the United States.
Last year, he vowed to sign an executive order directing agencies to abandon that practice, if reelected.
How exactly Trump will change policies within agencies is unclear, but experts indicate he has options.
Regardless, revoking birthright citizenship could impact waves of new illegal immigrants and change the incentives for so-called birth tourism, wherein an expectant mother arrives in the United States just before giving birth.
During his first term, Trump attempted to combat the phenomenon through a policy targeting the country’s temporary visa program.
However Trump chooses to end birthright citizenship will likely provoke a legal battle of constitutional proportions and with a case that could reach the Supreme Court, as Trump predicted during his first term.
The concept of birthright citizenship stems from the 14th Amendment, which states in part: “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.”
Lora Ries, who serves as director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at the Heritage Foundation, told The Epoch Times that Trump could start by directing the State Department and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to interpret the 14th Amendment in a particular way.
“I don’t believe that a statute is necessary” or that a “constitutional amendment is necessary,” said Ries, who also served as the deputy chief of staff for DHS during Trump’s first administration.
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Stupid, stupid people.
I think everyone in America should have their citizenship removed.
Everyone.
I just left you over on the Sunday Morning talk show thread.
Come in off the ledge, please.
This sounds like one of those perineal battles that never gets resolved, similar to ending Daylight Savings Time, once and for all.
BTTT
Why?
Why should anyone have US Citizenship? It’s not like it’s a right!
Because it’s absurd, and I like absurd things!
If it were a mere matter of changing current US Code, all it would take is Congressional legislation.
However, there are deeper Constitutional conflicts involved; ergo, this article isn't wrong (much less stupid) to state that birthright citizenship in America (as it currently stands) stems from the 14th Amendment.
That time is long gone. It is well over 150 years ago. The Amendment should be amended. The first sentence should now read:
All persons born of parents where one of which has been a resident of the United States for a period no less than 10 years, 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.
This would stop Birth Tourism in its tracks. No Visa lasts 10 years.
Just a few generations of chain migration and there’s 400 million foreigners in the US. No time for societal assimilation. It’s the end of the US as we knew it (past tense because it’s already under way and we all see, hear and feel it).
Rabbits with a cause.
This is something that should have been done decades ago. What other country allows maternity tourism? I believe most countries deem a baby born to a non-citizen to be a citizen of the country of the mother. Muslims, I believe, say the child is a citizen of the country of the father.
For instance, there is a big business in this country to get pregnant Chinese women here before their child is born. I’ve read of a hotel in California that’s only business is to host women who come from China to give birth in the U.S.
What BS you spout. Birthright citizenship STEMS from Article I, Section 8, Clause 4...to establish a uniform rule of naturalization...and it’s codified in USC 8.
“ 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.”
It was saying freed slaves are citizens.
Not anyone who happened to be born here.
I’m a citizen of Earth but reside in the United States.
INDUBITABLY!+)
Basically the hospitals thwt give you the jabs are the same places which will decide the citizenship... I can see the immigration offices popping there. Already my next door slum apartment complex has one...
Everyone immigrant seem to be playjng the Obama no paper trail and irresponsible card under the radar. They refuse to drive registered insured cars, often wont even apply for citizenship and dont even like the green card. Meanwhile the Haitian girls come popping children left and right with simps from Haiti often hanging around their necks for a ride along in America ... although Haitians as Creoles do adapt as a tradition US norms and churches. The bad ones seem to come from east Africa ?hello Obama?) and they even lose complete touch with their original culture they do not care to maintain in honkr and go wilding doing little jobs in US neighborhoods courting clueless black americans who think they are brothers but scamming them Obama style.
Maybe one day black Americans will realize the BS but right now they think it is a tit for tat NBA games with white people, with saves, rebounds and other score retarded schizophrenic modes without a theme. Even pot they dont know how to handle other than as children. They have no theme except what Oprah BS and NBA narcissisms of “Air Jordan” tells them what cool is.
what is going America!
* maintain in honor
Good.luck with that entitlement of citizen of the Earth... I dont even think Democrats can honor it despite acting like the illegals are our bigger siblings as citizens of the Earth that somehow “local” Americans must acomodate in honor.
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