WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.
“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby – congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. … It’s frankly ridiculous,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
Trump has made cracking down on immigration a central plank of his presidency and re-election campaign, but many of the administration’s sweeping rule changes and executive orders have been stymied by the courts.
The Republican president had told Axios news website in October 2018 that he would end “birthright citizenship” through an executive order. Experts have said such a move would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.
The Constitution’s 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War to ensure that black Americans had full citizenship rights, granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”
It has since routinely been interpreted to grant citizenship to most people born in the United States, whether or not their parents are American citizens or legally living in the United States.
Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Makini Brice; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Jonathan Oatis
I’m sensing someone is talking out of both sides of his mouth again. This can’t be good. You end birthright citizenship, the government then can interpret you not be an American even if you were born in this country to parents who were born and living in this country all their life. That can then lead to the government claiming they have the right to take your baby away or that they have the right to tell you whether or not that baby can or cannot be an American.
Either way, we are not citizens but are American Nationals. However, from a government perspective, I see they are heading down a slippery slope here.
Once again, the easiest way to end all of this shit is to ENFORCE THE GODDAMN BORDER!!! But of course that’s not the ending goal here as we all know.
Oh yes, birthright citizenship is going to end, as that is the 14th f-king Amendment, and after it is gone the subject citizen is gone and the individual free sovereign national, possessed of the Bill of Rights with the jurisdictional authority to enforce those rights, is all that will be left.
“We’re looking at that very seriously,…”
Getting an early jump on the re(s)election ‘process’?
After yesterday’s ‘magnificent moment’ (“I’m the chosen one”), how can ANYONE (even Trumptards, at this point) take this @ssclown seriously anymore??? 🙄
HAVE YA’LL FIGURED OUT YET THAT ONLY THE US GOVERNMENT ARE “CITIZENS”?
Need to start with a legally elected sheriff with real fkg hair.