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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Well duh, end the 14th Amendment and end birthright citizenship moving forward. Those before the change are still citizens.
We are at the point now where if the left no longer honors the Constitution then for conservatives to continue to honor it is sure national suicide.
I would much prefer the GOP defend the founding principles but sadly it is not inclined to do so.
So this judge has an opinion...so what? Many judges are LIB asshats.
That wasn’t the 14th Amendment intent or is it the law to keep them here.
Exactly what Trump has in mind.
And women that are kept out of the US or who are deported can’t have a baby on US soil... problem solved.
Only Trump can build the wall.
Since when does the Constitution count for anything? Obunghole has spent the last 6 years wiping his, er, bunghole with it..
the Constitution does not define “natural born citizen” and U.S. code sucks in its definition
Okay “judge”, if he can’t do it, what can he do to accomplish these goals? Constructive suggestions more helpful than naysaying.
> So an illegal can confer American citizen on another illegal?
+1 bonus points...: )
The concept of jus soli is absurd on its face-which is why most Americans oppose it when it's explained to them, and why most of the planet rejects it.
Even though it contributes only a slight percentage to the number of immigrants in this country, it has horrible cascading policy effects that open borders advocates refuse to acknowledge.
So?
Obama’s “importation” ExO’s are unconstitutional and it didn’t stop him.....
The term is generally used as a derogatory reference to the supposed role of the child, who automatically qualifies as an American citizen and can later act as a sponsor for other family members.[6][7] The term is alsooften used in the context of the debate over illegal immigration to the United States to refer to children of illegal immigrants, but may be used for the child of any immigrant.[8] A similar term, "passport baby", has been used in Canada for children born through so-called "maternity" or "birth tourism".
Source: Wikipedia
There are people in my neighborhood whose "anchor baby" children are now approaching 21 years of age or who have already passed their 21st birthday and still live at home. The way the "law" works is not lost on these people. No other country on earth gives gifts like these to invading criminals. I have noticed smiles on the parents' faces lately and lots of new cars and trucks in their driveway.
Judge Nap kind of looks like a foreigner. Let’s add his name to the list.
"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."
The children of foreign nationals are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" the United States of America. They are "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" the country of which their parents are citizens or subjects.
The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment had absolutely no intention of granting citizenship to the children of foreign nationals, just because they managed to invade our country long enough for those children to be born.
FU J N
By this reasoning a child born in Cancun while the parents are on vaction is a Mexican citizen?
I had a feeling the birthright citizenship thing was a no-go, but I’m not so certain that non-violent rights are similarly set in stone. Perhaps we could find a satisfactory way to expedite the processing of trespassers.
“Makes you go....... Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...”
Hosepipe’s giving out hummers. Everyone line up.
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