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Trump reveals plan to use executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegals
American Thinker ^ | 10/30/2018 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 10/30/2018 8:33:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Expect an explosion of media outrage and high powered lawsuits, especially in jurisdictions with Trump-hating federal judges.  President Trump has launched an October surprise.

Last night in an interview granted to Jonathan Swan of Axios, President Trump announced his plans to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born on American territory to illegal immigrants and foreign citizens, presumably at least those “not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States” as required by the 14th Amendment.

The Washington Post reports

“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,” Trump said during an interview with Axios scheduled to air as part of a new HBO series starting this weekend. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”

Trump, who has long decried “anchor babies,” said he has discussed the move with his legal counsel and believes it can be accomplished with executive action, a view at odds with the opinions of many legal scholars.

“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump told Axios.

When told that view is disputed, Trump asserted: “You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”

“It’s in the process. It’ll happen . . . with an executive order,” he said, without offering a time frame.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; anchorbabies; executiveorder; illegals; searchworks; trump; trumpeo; trumpillegals
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To: Impy; All

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However, the flip-side ... ‘higher’ learning.

Most legal scholars in college are indoctrinated to believe that court precedent and current ‘settled law’ are more profound than original intent and orginial ‘settled law’.

For example, abortion. Since Roe has been the law of the land for so long, it does not matter that orginal ‘settled law’ had outlawed abortion since the nation’s beginning and that the change still breeds discord. So far as most sophist gavel jockeys are concerned, it’s not the constitution and Federalist Papers that have any weight, but the text books shoved under their noses in college.

Like I’ve been saying — professors must be mandated to engage in fair debates annually, and students must hear mandated debates. We could allow the two SCOTUS justices with the most opposed opinions each choose a representative to debate each other once a year. And every student [high school up] needs to hear it.

Professors could also be mandated to debate once a year if they gain the attention of a ‘debate board’. That could be appointed collectively by state legislators or some other means that is isolated from DC’s power-hungry beltway [such as the random county primary concept I had suggested years ago — a board that could also propose budget cuts and mandate debates with congress members who oppose such cuts].
Then parents could network at various forums, find copies of those debates in a data base, and more shrewdly decide where their money will be spent.

Until some kind of drastic reform happens, more metal shavings accumulate in the gears of education. ‘Higher’ learning is a jalopy, already reduced to a backfiring clunker. Eventually the machine will be destroyed.


61 posted on 10/31/2018 4:44:35 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (FoxNews owes Judicial Watch a PROFOUND apology. Or are they corrupt?)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Sounds like a great "Plan of Action" to me.

We need to REQUIRE that students AND VOTERS UNDERSTAND the Constitution.
They must actually READ THE CONSTITUTION !
EXCERPT ...
62 posted on 10/31/2018 4:58:18 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Read
63 posted on 10/31/2018 5:02:01 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Yosemitest

AWESOME!

Thank you so much, Yosemitetest. Your posts define the issue perfectly.


64 posted on 10/31/2018 6:01:41 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (FoxNews owes Judicial Watch a PROFOUND apology. Or are they corrupt?)
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To: Yosemitest; Impy; onyx; pax_et_bonum; WildHighlander57; Kackikat; shoff; snippy_about_it; ...

In post 62, Yoesemitest quoted Rush Limbaugh — very powerful case to back up Trump. And more research in post 63.

Here is the meat:

Quote, “This,” meaning the 14th Amendment…

“This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers…”

It was expressly intended to confer citizenship to slaves and their descendants.

There was an 1884 case, Elk v. Wilkins.

The Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Native Americans because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction.

Well, an illegal alien here is not subject to U.S. jurisdiction. They’re under the jurisdiction of where they came from if they’re here illegally.

Guess when this all changed ?

In the 1960s !

[entire quote also awesome — only thing in the way is the leftist indoctrination of law students that elevates recent ‘settled law’ above original intent.]


65 posted on 10/31/2018 6:09:55 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (FoxNews owes Judicial Watch a PROFOUND apology. Or are they corrupt?)
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To: SunkenCiv; GOPJ

I should have included you both in this important ping.

If you read post 65 I doubt you will regret it.


66 posted on 10/31/2018 6:11:46 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (FoxNews owes Judicial Watch a PROFOUND apology. Or are they corrupt?)
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To: Biggirl; Qiviut; MustKnowHistory; gaijin; poinq

Post 62 is the segment in which Rush Limbaugh backed up Trump with rock solid original intent.


67 posted on 10/31/2018 6:13:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (FoxNews owes Judicial Watch a PROFOUND apology. Or are they corrupt?)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Thanks .

68 posted on 10/31/2018 7:01:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: cuban leaf

Let’s say a Chinese child is born here - baby’s a citizen - then through ‘chain migration’ every other member of the family - parents, other children, grandparents, aunts, uncles etc. become American citizens.

There’s a business bringing Chinese mother’s to the United States to give birth. For the next 85 years we’re responsible for the child...


69 posted on 10/31/2018 7:08:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Thanks Arthur...


70 posted on 10/31/2018 7:09:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: oldasrocks

“I don[t think the 14th applies to illegal occupants of America.”

I agree.


71 posted on 10/31/2018 12:31:48 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

How many liberal heads will explode when the Supreme Court agrees with him. I can hardly wait.

When Sanctuary cities refuse to arrest illegals they are proving that the illegals are not under our jurisdiction therefore Trump is 100% correct in refusing the babies a citizenship.


72 posted on 10/31/2018 1:35:11 PM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
The Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Native Americans because they were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction. Well, an illegal alien here is not subject to U.S. jurisdiction. They’re under the jurisdiction of where they came from if they’re here illegally.

Excellent...

73 posted on 11/01/2018 7:45:58 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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