With a week to go before the 2018 midterm elections?
Donald Trump is continuing to try use immigration as his fear tactic….
He’s already made sure everybody knows he’s sending ‘troops’ to the border to stop a caravan of invading families with children from Central America….(The troops aren’t allowed to actually enforce immigration law, but can fix fences and build roads)…
He’s been pissed that his Homeland Sec and Attorney General can’t just STOP the increasing number of people showing up at the border and asking for asylum….
Now with days to go before the election?
He floats a trial ballon he KNOWS won’t happen….
That is by his own pen he orders that immigrants in this country give birth won’t have those children be registered as American citizens, something that is law….
I said a few days ago that Trump would be talking some crazy shit before the November vote…
I’ll bet this isn’t the only thing he’ll invent to try and steal the media attention from other things like mass religious based shooting’s or pipe bombs mass mailed associated with his comments?
President Trump said in a new interview released Tuesday that he will sign an executive order intended to end the practice of birthright citizenship.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said during an interview with Axios.
Axios reports that the White House is preparing an order that would declare an end to the longstanding staple of America’s immigration system.
That would set up a new battle for Trump at the Supreme Court over the 14th Amendment, which states that all persons “born or naturalized in the United States” are “citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Trump in the interview with Axios insisted it was possible to make the change through an executive order in addition to an act of Congress.
“You can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order,” the president added, before stating incorrectly: “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 … with all of those benefits.”
Canada also has birthright citizenship, as do most of the nations in South and Central America. The United States and Canada are two of the only developed countries in the West to have birthright citizenship….
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Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) on Tuesday slammed President Trump over his stated intention to sign an executive order to stop the practice of birthright citizenship.
“Birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution, so no @realDonaldTrump you can’t end it by executive order,” Curbelo tweeted. “What we really need is broad immigration reform that makes our country more secure and reaffirms our wonderful tradition as a nation of immigrants.”
Birthright citizenship is protected by the Constitution, so no @realDonaldTrump you can’t end it by executive order. What we really need is broad immigration reform that makes our country more secure and reaffirms our wonderful tradition as a nation of immigrants. https://t.co/7xlbfrt6rW
— Carlos Curbelo (@carloslcurbelo) October 30, 2018
Curbelo’s statement came just hours after Trump made the comments regarding birthright citizenship in an interview with Axios….
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Josh Blackman, a law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, said the first question is whether the executive order actually exists “or just something he’s making up for the midterms.
“But assuming it’s a real thing, it will be very surprising why his lawyers signed off on it,” Blackman said. “There are a lot of issues where legal scholars widely disagree. Birthright citizenship is not one of these areas.”
The move would be sure to ignite legal challenges as to whether Trump has the power to end birthright citizenship, but Trump indicated that the White House has determined he does.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment,” Trump said. “Guess what? You don’t.”
“You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order.”
The issue of whether birthright citizenship could be applied to children born to non-U.S. citizens was the focus of an 1898 Supreme Court ruling. In U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark, the court held that a man born to Chinese-national parents in the U.S. was in fact a U.S. citizen.
Blackman said it‘s broadly accepted that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States means subject to U.S. laws. However, a small group of legal experts disagree with that view….
Folks?
The GOPer’s can’t get their shit together on this stupidity….
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said that he will introduce legislation to end birthright citizenship after President Trump suggested he wanted to do so through an executive order.
“Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform — and at the same time — the elimination of birthright citizenship,” Graham said in a string of tweets.
He added that he plans “to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order” from Trump. Congress is out of session until Nov. 13.
If Graham is going to propose legislation to amend the Constitution, his bill would need to win over not only two-thirds majorities in Congress, but also be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
His announcement comes hours after Trump said in an interview released Tuesday that he will sign an executive order intended to end the practice of birthright citizenship….
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Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
“You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.” — Paul Ryan, today
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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said the 14th Amendment is clear and that President Trump cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order, the Washington Post reports.
“He also said that Republicans did not like it when President Obama changed immigration laws by executive action and that reversing the Constitution would be a lengthy process.”
Politicalwire…
Remember when Lindsey Graham was, together with John McCain et al., the Republican side of the Gang of something-or-other that was going to produce a bi-partisan immigration reform ??
Now he’s just the running dog of Donald J. Trump.
Graham iis comical these days….
Graham is giving Trump a civics lesson. One doesn’t have to agree with him on the substance of the issue. Graham would be the one attempting to proceed in a legitimate Constitutional way though. What’s wrong with that?
Because the perception is that Graham is a lackey …..
Jumping up and doing Trump’s lifting even if THAT is ridiculous….
But THAT is what Graham has done for ages…
This is actually an issue Graham has advocated doing something about for years before Trump came along.
Then he’s REALLY a dummy
Why?
I would not change the law, but it’s not a completely extreme position.
We are country of laws?
Graham KNOWS no one is gonna tamper with the constitution theses days…..
ESPECIALLY with Donald Trump floating around….
Heck, even Paul Ryan has knocked the idea
This is AGAIN midterm bullshit
Come on CG?
It’s been almost 3 years!
We KNOW how Trump works….
Graham has advocated doing it through the Constitutional process. You seem to not understand that. Lots of people want lots of things done through the Constitutional process. They are tough to do, but’s the vehicle to do it.
Graham did not say to do it by Executive Action or that it could be done that way.
CG?
NO ONE is gonna bickering with the Constitution now….
NO ONE….
Of course Graham and EVERYBODY else is telling Trump his idea is just plain bullshit….
I think Lindsey Graham is only suggesting the Constitutional Amendment process. It would take years. I would not support it, but there are legitimate arguments for it.
Of course, nobody actually believes this is going to go anywhere or that Trump is bringing this up now only to try to get midterm votes.
CG?
NOBODY is taking this seriously except the media and dumb Trump supporters….
The IS straight up midterm politicking ….
Thank you for affirming my post???
*not* bringing it up now.