“When Trump makes extreme suggestions like deporting millions of undocumented immigrants (and potentially their citizen children), he overlooks the huge economic cost of such a proposal, which could range from $300 billion to $600 billion, according to various estimates”, wrote Maribel Hastings, senior advisor at America’s Voice. Do you agree with his immigration reform?
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He points to a time when politicians tried to deny citizenship rights to black people.
Trump made the remark during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire as well as in an interview on CNN in talking about illegal immigration. It read, “All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States…”
“I think we ought to be finishing the wall and making it clear that anybody that comes over once that’s done is going to be sent home, no questions asked“, Kasich said at the Iowa State Fair, adding that he does not, however, believe we should repeal birthright citizenship.
Cruz, however, went a step further than many 2016 Republicans when he suggested that he would be open to altering the Constitution to get rid of blanket birthright citizenship, during a radio interview with Michael Medved on Wednesday.
His latest proposal: revoke the citizenship of American-born children of undocumented immigrants, a right guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. “It’s a view I have long held”. “As much as someone may dislike the policy of birthright citizenship, it’s in the U.S. Constitution”.
Last month, New York and Washington, D.C., moved to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour, and Los Angeles in June said it would lift its lowest hourly wage to $15 by 2020.
Amending the U.S. Constitution is hard, requiring both chambers of Congress to approve any changes with a two-thirds vote, followed by approval from at least 38 of the 50 state legislatures.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign town hall meeting in Derry, … Illegal immigrants? Give them legal status and a path to citizenship.
“I’m for Americans building the wall, not Mexico“, Santorum said.
He said the country needed to start taking back its country. But then in 1857 came the infamous Dred Scott case, a Supreme Court decision that denied automatic citizenship to Americans born here of African descent. Trump did not say how they would determine which are good and which are not, but in the past, he has said the deportation policy is needed to get rid of all the immigrants committing crimes in the nation.
“The reason is: I’m going to bring jobs back”, he said.
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Birthright citizenship in the U.S. dates to its founding days in the 18th century, when English common law was imported to the first American colonies.
