Posted on 08/21/2015 7:50:21 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Front-running Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Sunday picked up on a proposal from Sen. David Vitter, R-La., for a constitutional amendment barring "birthright citizenship" for children born in the United States to parents without legal status. It is part of a policy proposal unveiled Sunday (Aug. 16) on his campaign website. The plan calls for Mexico to fund a protective wall across the U.S.-Mexican border, deportation of all "criminal aliens," and tripling the force of U.S. immigration officers.
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You really don’t need a Constitutional Amendment to solve this issue. The good old 14th will handle the job. So any honest Supreme Court could resolve the issue quite easily.
Oh. Now I get it. Maybe that Constitutional Amendment isn’t such a bad idea after all.
FUNNY!!!!!
Thanks.
Wow, just wow.
We’re being lead by idiots.
Well, Trump is getting more done, in DC...than any of our politicians are!
Amending the Constitution to remove birthright citizenship is no big deal.....factoring in the nation’s visceral disgust w/ the problem.
FOR EXAMPLE: Congress passed the 26th Amendment in March 1971 (to lower the voting age). It was promptly ratified by the states in a matter of months ..... and became law in July 1971.
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