Posted on 08/17/2015 1:46:45 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Donald Trump laid out some details of his immigration plan in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" this weekend.
Trump, who has been criticized in recent weeks for failing to give particulars on his immigration promises, said he will rescind President Obama's executive orders and end birthright citizenship.
As part of it, Trump said he wants to rescind President Obama's executive orders on immigration; deport many of those in the U.S. illegally while providing an expedited return process for "the good ones;" and do away with automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil.
The Trump campaign said the policy, known as birthright citizenship, is the "biggest magnet" for illegal immigration.
"They have to go," Trump said on NBC's "Meet the Press," of families living in the U.S. illegally and having a child, adding: "What they're doing, they're having a baby. And then all of a sudden, nobody knows ... the baby's here."
Judge Andrew Napolitano explained this morning on "America's Newsroom" what Trump can and cannot do on immigration. He said that Trump's promise to deport children born in America to illegal immigrant mothers is "prohibited by the Constitution."
"The Constitution says very clearly, whoever is born here - no matter the intent of the parent - is a natural-born citizen. He could not change that. Even if he were to change the Constitution, it would not affect people who had already been born here. It would only affect people not yet born here," said Napolitano.
He added that any president can rescind an executive order of a predecessor. But the judge pointed out that every undocumented immigrant that Trump intends to deport would be entitled to a hearing and an appeal.
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Correct.
Well .. that doesn’t mean we are stuck with this situation; it means we need a new law that says; child cannot be citizen of USA, unless parent is already a citizen.
Ha! Barry has already set the precedent of not allowing that steenkin’ Constitution to even slow him down!
A lot of people just read head lines. SO, the take away is Trump won’t be able to do it.
“Funny how the establishment’s support of illegal immigration and blamket amnesty jibes perfectly with the CoC’s desire for cheap labor.”
Apparently, all they care about. I remember when the CoC was our friend, instead of our sworn enemy.
Teflon Don now has the media clowns reacting to him. What's going to happen in the next few months is going to be sight to see. Trump is going to rip their untruthful schemes apart.
Trump will be several steps ahead of them. He can have a parade of experts going through the history of citizenship pertaining to illegal immigration that has been obscured for years. He has very good back up with Senator Sessions and few more who will be put front and center on the immigration issue. When you lie all the time sitting on top of a weak and rotten limb, someone may come by and cut it off. The GOPE, Fox, and many others are about to get called out.
The judge misses the point here. Trump was not talking about stripping citizenship; he was talking about keep families together. IF parents get deported, they take their children with them.
Further, Trump wants to do away with the SCOTUS anchor baby edict. In my opinion, that can be done legislatively by with no Constitutional Amendment necessary.
Glad to see that you get it. I wish more of us did!
“...and subject to the jurisdiction thereof...”
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You are exactly right. I don’t understand why Napolitano ignored this crucial part of the 14th.
No, we’re not stuck.
Congress can eliminate the anchor baby incentive by law.
But I think you are missing a crucial point. Children born in the US can be ‘deported’ even if one parent is a US citizen. So certainly a child born to Illegal Alien parents can be deported.
So foreign nationals cannot be arrested if they break the law in the U.S.?
BTTT
So would the 14th Amendment.
So foreign nationals cannot be arrested if they break the law in the U.S.?
Of course they can. They are subject to the laws of our land just like everyone else, as long as they're here. They're not entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens though.
Actually yeah, they are.
Of course they are. They can be arrested and punished according to our laws solely on our say so.
Foreigners with diplomatic immunity? Not so much.
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