Jeb Bush is breaking with Donald Trump and several other Republican presidential candidates, saying he supports the long-standing right to citizenship for all children born in the United States – regardless of their parents’ legal status.
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“I don’t think they have American citizenship, and if you speak to some very, very good lawyers, some would disagree”, Trump added.
Zuckerberg started a public interest group called Fwd.us along with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to promote immigration reform policies, reports CNN Money. “Our country is going to hell”, the Republican presidential front-runner said Tuesday night in an interview on Fox News.
Participants say that they trust Donald Trump primarily on the economy, immigration, social issues such as abortion, and the fight against the Islamic state.
I asked the Walker campaign if the governor thinks enforcing the laws and e-verify – addressing the “root problems” – would sufficiently curb illegal immigration and, as a result, that there wouldn’t be many children born to illegals and granted birthright citizenship, or whether the governor meant something different.
That may seem clear cut, but CNN explains that the clause about “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” provides wiggle room for Trump’s position.
So it is perhaps not a shock that Trump’s newly unveiled immigration plan-which vows to end birthright citizenship, seize all remittances to Mexico, and immediately deport all illegal immigrants-is willfully unrealistic, insanely expensive, and infuriating to Mexico and its people.
“Bill, I don’t think they have American citizenship”, he said of those with undocumented mothers. “Our country is going to hell”.
Ending birthright citizenship would require the repeal or drastic revision of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution, enacted following the US Civil War.
“Raising the prevailing wage paid to H-1Bs will force companies to give these coveted entry-level jobs to the existing domestic pool of unemployed native and immigrant workers in the U.S., instead of flying in cheaper workers from overseas”, wrote Trump.
Trump glosses over the fact that it’s in the U.S. Constitution, and that the odds of taking it out are slim and none.
Calling for an end to birthright citizenship is not new for the Republican field.
O’Reilly then suggested that Trump file a federal lawsuit to prove his theory.
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Since June, Trump’s policy on immigration has vacillated from one vague idea to another, but this week he put in writing on his website his first position on the matter.
