“Bill, I don’t think they have American citizenship“, Trump said.
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“It doesn’t matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies”, the report said.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump takes credit for starting the discussion over illegal immigration, but former Pennsylvania Sen.
In any case, Donald Trump made clear to O’Reilly that he intends to “test it”, in office, using the powers of the presidency to determine whether children of undocumented immigrants – birth certificates, Social Security cards and all – are in fact citizens.
Trump hasn’t backed down in the face of criticism about his comments about undocumented immigrants and his plan to deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
Other Republican presidential candidates have joined Trump’s call for ending birthright citizenship, but none so far have suggested doing so retroactively and stripping certain people of their American citizenship.
Bush said there are ways to “solve abuses, of people coming into the country so their children can become citizens”.
Another group of Republicans, like Cruz and Trump, are calling for the Constitution to be changed to remove the incentive for immigrants who enter the country illegally to have children. It was then firmly established by the Supreme Court in the 1898 case of United States vs. Wong Kim Ark, which involved the San Francisco-born son of Chinese immigrants who successfully argued that he had been illegally denied citizenship rights.
When asked on “Fox & Friends” his views on birthright citizenship, Christie said, “Everything should be on the table to be discussed to try to make sure that what we do is we get the most effective system we can to end what’s been happening in this country”.
“That’s not going to happen because the 14th Amendment says if you’re born here, you’re an American”. “Those workers who serve as grounds keepers or waiters, bartenders and maids, they are the hard-working Americans who are being hurt most by record levels of legal and illegal immigration”. “Our country is going to hell”.
The poll is only the latest in a slew that have shown Trump with a dominant lead in the race.
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“A group of friends – and you know I’m very close to a lot of people – a lot of friends in Alabama”, he said. “I think it needs to be a little more organized than that”.
