Levin: Paul Ryan was dead wrong on birthright citizenship. Here’s how

Conservative Review ^ | October 30, 2018 | Carmel Kookogey

[conservative98]

Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin ripped Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., for his response to President Trump’s statement that he plans to issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship.

Ryan claimed the 14th Amendment creates the birthright citizenship and that therefore such an executive order would be unconstitutional.

“There’s been no law passed that conveys birthright citizenship onto illegal aliens. There’s been no Supreme Court decision that definitively confers birthright citizenship onto illegal alien children. Nobody’s a hundred percent certain how this came to be. But everybody seems to be a hundred percent certain that the president can’t fix it. … Well, does the Constitution confer birthright citizenship on the children of illegal aliens? Of course it doesn’t!”

Levin replayed a clip from his show in 2015, in which he laid out the stated purpose of the 14th Amendment and read Senator Jacob Howard’s explanation.

“‘This will not of course include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens … but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship.’ … Is it not plain English? Is he not as clear as can be that it does not include aliens, it does not include foreigners. … The republican basis for citizenship is consent! Consent of the country! You can’t self-immigrate. You can’t claim jurisdiction because you happen to walk into the United States.”

“What is the bottom line here? Let’s number this: They wanted to make certain that former slaves would be treated as citizens of the United States, because certain states were still resistant. … They exempted Indians, because Indians still, certainly back then, were often considered citizens of particular tribes. But these actually were very forward-looking individuals. They specifically excluded aliens and foreigners.”

[FreeReign]

Ryan is worse than mcgoo...not by much.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Traitor

[faithhopecharity]

the 14th amendment definitely does NOT create “birthright citizenship!!!!!” Absolutely not, indeed the authors of the 14th wrote it extremely carefully to specifically prevent it from doing that!

Mr. Ryan, please review your Constitutional Law class notes

thank you!

[Bullish]

Big govt. Open borders, amnesty loving, globalist liberal Paul Ryan.

I couldn’t care less what he thinks about anything.

[Salvavida]

8. Enforce the US Code for illegal entry: 6 months and a fine.

9. Criminalize over-staying a visa as a federal misdemeanor in US Code to 6 months and a fine.

There has to be consequences.

[ConservativeMind]

But Mark, Paulie is your butt buddy.

You don’t dis your RINO butt buddy.

[BigSkyFreeper]

They’re not slaves, they’re criminal aliens. Big difference.

[Lean-Right]

“That was done administratively sometime in the 1960’s.”

By none other than the illustrious
Senator Ted Kennedy.

https://www.capsweb.org/caps-issues/american-jackpot-remaking-america-birthright-citizenship

[ifinnegan]

Ryan says what he thinks is expedient and he’s living in the past.

[alstewartfan]

So, Ryan is a mere pedestrian jackass. Got it. lol

[alstewartfan]

Don’t be stupid. Levin has been attacking Ryano mercilessly for years.

[Kahuna]

Paul Ryan is dead to me.

[DoughtyOne]

Levin: 01

Ryan: 00

The 14th does not grant citizenship to every kid born on our soil.

The children of foreigners here as illegal aliens do not qualify.

[4Liberty]

BUMP!

[Tennessee Nana]

Thank you Mark...

I’m a naturalized American citizen and a veteran...I know what it takes to immigrate and to become an American citizen...

I also know the love of country involved to serve in our military...

none of these attributes are in the hearts and minds of illegal aliens ...they don’t came here to serve our country but to demand and take benefits which should go to disabled veterans and other American citizens...

“subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ also means to me to be willing to respect and obey our country’s immigration laws...illegal aliens come here with no intention to do so...in fact its a cute game they play to see just how much they can get away with...

BTW they video of the aggressive hordes in the so called caravan reminds me of watching the TV in Sept 2015 of the Moslems marching through Europe...same young military aged men same destruction and attacks on local LE and immigration officials at the borders...

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[semimojo]

This will not of course include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens … but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship.

Classic Levin. When he omits the part of the quote that guts his argument - "...who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States..." you know he has nothing but bluster.

[Yosemitest]

You're too soft.
Make the punishment 10 YEARS hard labor working on building the WALL .

[Yosemitest]

You're wrong on Ted Cruz.

Cruz’s father’s Cuban nationality at the time of Cruz’s birth, is irrelevant, according to the law at that time, just so long as he was a LEGAL Immigrant at the time of Ted Cruz's birth, AND both of Ted Cruz's parents were legally married to each other.

What are the rules for people born between December 23, 1952 and November 13, 1986?
The 14th Amendment IS a part of the U.S. Constitution and states in SECTION 5.
The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
So, under that power to legislate, Congress legislated antd the President signed into law:
When ONE parent was a US citizen and the other a foreign national,
the US citizen parent must have resided in the US for a total of 10 years prior to the birth of the child,
with five of the years after the age of 14.

... While there were initially rules regarding what the child must do to retain citizenship,
amendments since 1952 HAVE ELIMINATED THESE REQUIREMENTS.

When Ted Cruz was born, his parents were "IN WEDLOCK".

They married, moved to Calgary, Alberta, and in late 1970 had their first and only child, Rafael Edward Cruz.
Cruz was born on December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where his parents, Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz.

Cruz's mother was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, in a family of three quarters Irish and one quarter Italian descent.
Eleanor Darragh, mother of Ted Cruz, was raised in Delaware, graduated from a Catholic High School (1952) in the U.S., as well as Rice University (1956),
so clearly she meets the residency requirements.

Source
In 1957, Rafael Bienvenido Cruz (Ted Cruz's father) decided to get out of Cuba by applying to the University of Texas.
Upon being admitted, he adds, he got a four-year student visa at the U.S. Consulate in Havana.

"Since he liked to eat seven days a week, he worked seven days a week, and he paid his way through the University of Texas," Ted Cruz says of his father, "and then ended up getting a job and eventually going on to start a small business and to work towards the American dream."

Only he did that in Canada, where Ted was born.
His father went there after having earlier obtained political asylum in the U.S. when his student visa ran out.
He then got a green card, he says, and married Ted's mother, an American citizen.
The two of them moved to Canada to work in the oil industry.

"I worked in Canada for eight years," Rafael Cruz says. "And while I was in Canada, I became a Canadian citizen."

The elder Cruz says he renounced his Canadian citizenship when he finally became a U.S. citizen in 2005 —
48 years after leaving Cuba.
Why did he take so long to do it?
"I don't know. I guess laziness, or — I don't know," he says.

So there is the law for the time Ted Cruz was born,
AND HOW Ted Cruz's PARENTS fulfilled ALL those requirements of the law that time, for Ted Cruz to be a "Natural Born Citizen".
Ted Cruz did NOT NEED a Court and a Judge to "Nationalize" him.

“Senator Cruz became a U.S. citizen at birth, and he never had to go through a naturalization process after birth to become a U.S. citizen,” said spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.
... The U.S. Constitution allows only a “natural born” American citizen to serve as president.
Most legal scholars who have studied the question agree that includes an American born overseas to an American parent, such as Cruz.

[conservative98]

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