Cruz ‘absolutely’ supports ending birthright citizenship

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, also speaking on the Michael Medved Show Wednesday, said, “Just because someone was born here doesn’t – even under the 14th amendment doesn’t necessarily mean that they have rights to citizenship”.

SHERRY: Well, you’d either have to amend the 14th Amendment, or you would have to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn their earlier precedent and rule that the 14th Amendment only applies to people whose parents are legally here.

The United States confers citizenship by what’s referred as jus soli – Latin for right of soil – as opposed to jus sanguinis – Latin for right of blood. As Congressional Research Service reports, the Nationality Act of 1940 “finally and unambiguously declared all Native Americans born in the United States to be U.S. citizens”.

It must be acknowledged that although Trump’s proposal about citizenship has as little chance of being put into effect as the deportation of all 11 million illegals, it is nevertheless quite popular in some precincts. Marco Rubio of Florida – do not have the momentum or the news media attention enjoyed by Trump, who is not only denouncing immigrants here illegally in nativist language but seeking severe limits on legal immigration. It’s both a source of genuine American exceptionalism – and thus a key distinguishing characteristic between the U.S. and the nations of Europe – and one of the Reconstruction Amendments, which dramatically improved the Constitution. If so, isn’t that already covered…by the part about being born in the U.S.? “There’s practical things that we can do to reduce the flow of illegal immigrants, which clearly is important to do”.

Donald Trump is once again dividing the Republican field, this time with his call to cease giving automatic citizenship to those born in the United States to undocumented immigrants.

“We have to make a whole new set of standards”, Trump said.

Asked at the Iowa State Fair on Monday if he supports building a wall along the U.S. Mexican border, as Trump has proposed, Wisconsin Gov. Walker gave a quick “yes”, but he declined to address whether he supports deporting children of parents in the country illegally.

But more to the point, before 1865 the Constitution implicitly condoned slavery, and excluded all blacks from citizenship.

“We have evidence of people buying tourist visas for the express objective of coming over here and having a child as birth tourism”.

It is, Skrentny added, a philosophy that works well for countries made up of immigrants, such as the U.S. and Canada.

“There’s no doubt that it’s a growing phenomenon”, CIS legal policy analyst Jon Feere said.

There is a dispute over whether ending birthright citizenship is possible without a constitutional amendment. Mark Levin argued last night that however you feel about what the Fourteenth Amendment says, Congress can change the meaning of birthright citizenship by statute, with no constitutional amendment needed.

Many Native Americans were also excluded from citizenship through 1924, on the principle that they belonged to their own sovereign entities within US territory. It grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” and subject to its jurisdiction. Latino voters are a big presence from the West Coast to such Southern states as Virginia and North Carolina.

Immigration supporters say there’s a reason the issue hasn’t come up before the Supreme Court since 1898 – and it’s because it’s settled. On the other hand, conservative legal writers and polemicists are now saying you can just interpret the constitution differently and get rid of birthright citizenship that way.

Has it been tried before?

Honestly, before those amendments, the Constitution flat-out stank. Harry Reid – now the Senate Minority Leader – espoused ending birthright citizenship, introducing legislation to do so.

“It is disturbing that Republican presidential candidates continue to embrace extreme anti-immigrant positions as core pieces of their immigration platform.” said Lorella Praeli, Hillary for America Latino Outreach Director.