When George Stephanopoulos asked on ABC’s This Week, “You’re not seeking to repeal or alter the 14th Amendment?”
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“Any discussion that goes beyond securing the border and enforcing the laws are things that should be a red flag to voters out there, who for years have heard lip service from politicians and are understandably angry because those politicians haven’t been committed to following through on those promises”. “It doesn’t make any sense that our law automatically grants citizenship to their children because what it does is it incentivizes additional illegal immigration“. Walker muddied his position Friday, saying he wouldn’t take a position on the birthright issue.
The relevant provision of the Constitution is the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868.
While that’s still a lot of folks rallying for Trump’s anti-immigration, anti-women and even anti-Oreo agenda, perhaps it’s a sign that his campaign’s bark is louder than its electoral bite.
In his immigration plan Trump called for seizing the remittances that undocumented immigrants send to their families (how the government will be able to distinguish them from the remittances from documented immigrants and everyone else, Trump didn’t say). “He doesn’t want to fight for fight’s sake”, Eric Anton, a New York real estate executive who participated in a conference call last week with Walker, told the State Journal in an interview. Let’s stop there. If it means what the proponents of birthright citizenship say, it would stop right there.
It is flat out wrong for children of illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens just because they were born here, especially when it’s justified using a false technicality of the Constitution. “We should pursue whichever one is effective but as a policy matter, we should change the law”.
Monday, late morning: Walker, roaming at the fair, tells MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt that birthright citizenship should “yeah, absolutely, going forward”, be ended. And it confirmed that those born in the Unites States are indeed entitled to American citizenship, and have been since the very birth of the nation.
“I don’t want any strings attached”, Trump said. If allegiance is what we’re anxious about, couldn’t it be cured by having native-born children of illegals formally take an oath of loyalty to the U.S.as naturalized citizens do? He said the issue is “an applause line”. “We don’t know what a secure border is, because we’ve never defined it as a society”. It’s not entirely clear whether this would be retroactive, stripping citizenship from tens of thousands of born Oregonians who grew up rooting for the Trail Blazers, but it would seem to reconcile two of Trump’s positions: that all undocumented immigrants must leave – in Trump’s phrase “They have to go” – and that he’s opposed to breaking up families. A few things we won’t tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING.
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Tuesday: Stanley Hubbard, a conservative billionaire who oversees a Minnesota broadcasting firm and has donated to Walker’s marketing campaign, confronts Walker on the difficulty throughout a lunch in Minnesota. Last week, however, Cruz, who was born in Canada to an American-born mother and Cuban immigrant father, said he supports changes to birthright citizenship. “I do know what you are asking for, however simply since you’re not glad together with his reply does not make his any much less worthy”. His ideas have Coulter so enthusiastic that she tweeted: “I don’t care if @realDonaldTrump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper”. He has been saying this all week lengthy. Still, with his support for tariffs and the like, you might think his protectionism would lead him to back higher wage standards at home.
