Liberal and Establishment Arguments for Birthright Citizenship Fail

Breitbart ^ | 08/20/2015 | Ken Klukowski

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Most arguments for birthright citizenship pushed by the political left and many establishment Republicans are baseless. For those who do try to make a legal argument, the strongest one is based upon two Supreme Court precedents, which were wrongly decided and should be overruled. But even those cases don’t save the myth that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.

Breitbart News recently explained that while several parts of Donald Trump’s immigration plan are likely unconstitutional, ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens is perfectly legal, so long as the law would only apply to future children and not to those already born. Trump, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, and other Republican candidates calling for ending birthright citizenship are on solid legal ground.

As explained in our previous report, these plans do not require “repealing the Fourteenth Amendment,” contrary to what media commentators breathlessly exclaim. (It should also be noted that many of them are not even lawyers, and most of the few who are lawyers have no expertise in constitutional law). Instead, those plans would only require amending the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA), a federal law which Congress can change at any time.

[GodAndCountryFirst]

We need to end birthright citizenship and make it retroactive back 40 or 50 years. Then we start the deportations,

[Catsrus]

Bill O’Reilly - pick up the phone.

[hoosiermama]

The establishment would have to admit they are the problem ........ Crickets

[DavidLSpud]

One interesting comment from someone on FR:

Who says they need to be deported. All Trump needs to do is simply DECLARE that anyone found in this country illegally will NEVER be allowed to come back. So when we find anchor families, Mom and/or Dad (whichever are illegal) are sent home, never to see their American kids again in this country.

Of course the other option for these families would be to leave (with or without their kids) BEFORE Trump takes office and then apply for expedited return on work visas.

I suspect most will take Option 2. And there ain’t a damn thing a court can do to stop it, since Trump still wouldn’t even be in office as they leave...it is only HIS WORDS making it clear to them that their best option is to quickly get to Mexico City to apply for (legal) admission to this country.