Don't switch to: "I don't think they should have American citizenship."
Who here is for retroactively stripping away citizenship or is in favor of or supports saying that the children born to illegals never had citizenship in the first place?
Nothing stateless about them. They're citizens or subjects of wherever they snuck in from. What's hard about that? They'll go back there with a boatload of skills, sophistication, and contacts here that will give them a huge advantage in their home country. I don't see what's not to like.
Okay, there's one thing. That scenario I just sketched probably applies to many of the gangsters as well.
Should Trump keep saying this throughout the primaries - that which Hot Air (and that which is on Google News - Google the words “trump I don’t think children born here to illegals”) quotes him as saying?
My question is what is he actually saying. I have heard him speak a couple of times and I have seen the typical news sound bites. I have yet to hear him say those already born in America are not citizens (or anything meaning that). I really don’t have any trust for the news outlets, even so-called conservative news outlets.
Congress has the authority to determine this, and, sadly, the law is that anchor babies are US Citizens.
Such is not, however, a requirement of the 14th Amendment.
So, if a couple from anywhere outside the US buys tickets to visit the US, and the woman is pregnant and delivers in the US, the child is an American citizen? That’s ridiculous. If this is true, one could start a viable business of ‘pregnancy tourism’ for people who wanted their children to have automatic US citizenship.
The amendment is quite clear as to “subject to the laws of the United States” which the illegals and their anchor babies are not.
I want Trump to keep saying “I don’t think they have American citizenship.”
Me too.... but the idea came from Ted Cruz..
Good idea no matter the source..
Cruz has other good IDEAS TRUMP REJECTS....
Like making Crony Capitalism even more ILLEGAL...
Prosecuting THEM... sending them to the SLAMMER..
TRUMP will never go for THAT....
Cause the Cronys is WHY HE IS RUNNING in the first place..
you know. to PROTECT THEM FROM CRUZ...
Children born to illegals are not citizens.
People who have been counted as citizens until now will probably not be denied it retroactively. But that shouldn’t prevent us from correcting a mistake moving forward.
What he’s saying, in his own...folksy way, is that he thinks the Supremes will side with him in finding that birth right citizenship under the Constitution doesn’t apply to children of illegals.
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I wouldn’t count on it. The Roberts Court makes up its own laws and definitions as it wishes.
They clearly do have citizenship under the current Nationality Act. Whether the birthright citizenship provisions of that statute could be repealed without violating the 14th Amendment is debatable, but to say they “don’t have” citizenship is just plain wrong.
Its as superflous as those parts of Article II regarding the election of the Vice President.
Time for it to go.
GO TRUMP!!!!
And then they started flying the Mexican Flag at PROTESTS AGAINST US!!!! THAT DID IT!! ADIOS!!
Section 1. 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.
I’m having a hard time finding any way to interpret this other than anyone born in the US is a citizen. There is no wiggle room that I can find. I don’t like it, but if I try to interpret this, I’ll have to allow others to interpret the 2nd amendment as well.
That's the way the old illegal ball bounces.