Birthright Citizenship’ Suddenly a Key Issue in Presidential Race

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Wednesday that the United States shouldn’t automatically grant citizenship to children of immigrants in the country illegally. “I don’t think they have American citizenship“, he told Bill O’Reilly on Fox last night, reports Poltico.

“We’re going to keep the families together, but they have to go”, Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

And he would rescind Obama administration executive orders on immigration and toughen deportation, allowing in only “the good ones”.

Trump disagreed, and said that “many lawyers are saying that’s not the way it is in terms of this”.

Trump announced in his immigration policy proposal released Sunday (August 16) that he wants to end birthright citizenship – preventing future undocumented immigrants from giving birth to an American citizen simply by virtue of being born on U.S. soil.

In addition to the text of the 14th Amendment, the Court’s analysis reached back to the laws of colonial Europe, calling birthright citizenship an “ancient and fundamental rule”.

After Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump unveiled his six-page immigration policy paper earlier this week, his GOP rivals have wasted no time in lambasting his plan.

Cruz, in an interview on the Michael Medved radio show, made his position clear: “We should end granting automatic birthright citizenship to the children of those who are here illegally”.

Melania Trump, Donald’s wife since 2005 (and a citizen since 2006), is a former model from Slovenia.

“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border“, Trump has said, “and I will have Mexico pay for that wall, mark my words”.

The outspoken real estate tycoon, who has also sparred with high profile identities like media mogul Rupert Murdoch, TV personality Jon Stewart and actor Robert DeNiro, took aim at Mr Zuckerberg on his pro-immigration stance. “I’m not going to get, you know, ‘O’Reilly this!’ You’re not going to do that, right?” Who better to interview about Trump’s proposals than Sarah Palin?

And while many within the GOP banked on Trump’s support fading, the new calculation is he’s here to stay, Levesque said. That seems to have been the decision that interpreted the 14th Amendment when it comes to birthright citizenship.

His central premise is that immigrants are bad for the U.S. economy, and he ticked off a series of ways to fix both legal and illegal immigration. He later said of Kelly, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes”. “I think that every human life is a precious gift from God and should be protected in law from conception until natural death”, he told reporters in 2012. Well, one of them is that noted resident of the area under his bed, Andrew McCarthy, who has taken time out from his duties, including rousting jihadists from inside his dust ruffles, to give Trump some cover.