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Lindsey Graham to Introduce Bill Ending Birthright Citizenship ‘Magnet’ for Illegal Immigration
Breitbart ^ | 30 October 2018 | Sean Moran

Posted on 10/30/2018 11:41:29 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants on American soil, citing it as a “magnet for illegal immigration.”

President Donald J. Trump announced on Tuesday that he plans to draft an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in America.

Trump told Axios’ Jonathan Swan: But now they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order. Now, how ridiculous–we are the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits? It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous–and it has to end.

Sen. Graham cheered Trump’s move against birthright citizenship, citing it as a significant “magnet” for illegal immigration.

“Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship,” Graham said in a statement. “I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the elimination of birthright citizenship.”

Graham continued explaining that birthright citizenship is a foreign concept in most modern countries.

The South Carolina Republican said, “The United States is one of two developed countries in the world who grant citizenship based on location of birth. This policy is a magnet for illegal immigration, out of the mainstream of the developed world, and needs to come to an end.”

Eliminating birthright citizenship would prevent children born of illegal aliens would not receive citizenship status and would likely deter the practice of foreigners having “anchor babies” where immigrants plan to give birth to children on American soil to obtain citizenship for their children.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 115th; 14thamendment; 2018election; 2018issues; 2020election; aliens; anchorbabies; election2018; election2020; graham; lindseygraham; southcarolina
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To: gattaca

Don’t, he is still for amnesty.


61 posted on 10/30/2018 12:15:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: DoodleDawg

Graham has his finger in the wind and it’s blowing Trump. Or another way, Trump casts a big shadow and Graham is getting comfortable in the MAGA shade.

He is a fickle politician that wants to keep his job.


62 posted on 10/30/2018 12:15:50 PM PDT by Valpal1
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

How does this Bill hold up vs. The Fourteenth Amendment?


63 posted on 10/30/2018 12:18:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Heuvos Grande!


64 posted on 10/30/2018 12:19:11 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: PJBankard

I don’t recall so completely and quickly forgetting about a politician I once liked after they died like I did with mccain.

Ronald Reagan will be with me until I die.

Rudy will always have a warm place in my heart, though he is not a conservative.

JM was dead to me long before he died.


65 posted on 10/30/2018 12:22:13 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Like when Darth Vader tossed whatshisname down.


66 posted on 10/30/2018 12:25:04 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Blue Jays
Ever since the albatross around his neck, Senator John McCain, has gone away...he is an entirely new man.

I'm telling you, McCain bequeathed Lindsey Graham's balls back to Lindsey in his last will and testament! That is the ONLY plausible explanation!
67 posted on 10/30/2018 12:27:34 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Although it is good to eliminate the incentive the reality is different. Social Security is a pyramid scheme and the funds will run out in the near future. The young people are the ones that pay for the elderly. Therefore, as the population shrinks the outgoing expenses will be higher than the funds coming in.

There have been over 60 Million abortions in this country and most families are not having the minimum of two children that would be needed to replace the husband and wife. Therefore, the rhetoric sounds good but in reality the tax base is shinking because there are not enough people to support all of the government programs. By the time Social Security runs out of money it will be too late.


68 posted on 10/30/2018 12:27:46 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

THIS!!! Plus his butt buddy McCain is no longer there to hold his hand.


69 posted on 10/30/2018 12:32:59 PM PDT by bantam
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
I wonder what McCain had on him that no longer constrains him? Thanks BlackFemaleArmyColonel.

70 posted on 10/30/2018 12:40:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

We should call him “Dobby” (this freed elf answers to no master!) :)


71 posted on 10/30/2018 12:45:29 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: gattaca
I’ll stop calling him Lindsey Grahamnesty now.

I'd hold off on that for a while. Talk is cheap.

72 posted on 10/30/2018 12:47:40 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

McCain died.


73 posted on 10/30/2018 12:50:32 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to any baby born in the United States, with one proviso: you have to be "subject to the jurisdiction thereof". The issue is over whether a baby born to illegal alien parents is subject to U.S. jurisdiction. One argument is that since a person within the United States is covered by the law generally, he is so "subject" and so is a citizen. OTOH, Senator Jacob Howard, who had authored the Citizenship Clause, said that they babies born in the United States of foreigners are not covered by that clause, because their allegiance is to the country of their parents and not to the United States.

The Supreme Court has interpreted the Citizenship Clause multiple times, but never this situation. President Trump's executive order would likely force the issue into the Supreme Court, because there will be Liberal federal judges who will strike it down. This issue could be before the Supreme Court in time for the 2020 campaign.

74 posted on 10/30/2018 12:50:41 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

I will never call him Little Lindsey Loop De Loo. Never again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnT8lX0Wu3M


75 posted on 10/30/2018 12:52:59 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: SaveFerris
Like when Darth Vader tossed whatshisname down.

Emperor Palpatine.

76 posted on 10/30/2018 12:56:57 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

LOL couldn’t remember - been too long - thanks

(was just trying to find my old pic of Hillary blasting lightning at Obama - it’s gone, sadly)


77 posted on 10/30/2018 1:01:14 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: lonevoice

Thank you, Senator Graham! You are doing the right thing.


78 posted on 10/30/2018 1:02:36 PM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

This bill will fail. But it, and Trump’s EO, will move the Overton window on immigration quite a lot.

This will make the left hysterical.


79 posted on 10/30/2018 1:03:17 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Lurkinanloomin
"He is still a Cheap Labor Express stooge committed to amnesty for illegal aliens and their employers."

This^^.

While I am encouraged by Lindsey's new found courage, this move is just good politics and pandering to the base prior to the election.

80 posted on 10/30/2018 1:06:44 PM PDT by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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