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Paul finds Trump’s proposal to deport all illegals en masse to be foolish, especially since he has said that he wants to let the “good” ones back in.

A short history of this case can help us understand how this precedent was established and why plans to dismantle birthright citizenship today are so wrongheaded. Since 1995, there have been 28 bills introduced in congress seeking to end birthright citizenship. The amendment reads in part, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States“. “The right of citizenship [in the United States] never descends in the legal sense, either by the common law, or under the common naturalization acts”.

Besides the unprecedented mass deportation, the billionaire real estate developer advocates ending automatic citizenship for the US-born children of undocumented immigrants. What he’s saying, in his own … folksy way, is that he thinks the Supremes will side with him in finding that birthright citizenship under the Constitution doesn’t apply to children of illegals.

Birthright citizenship comes from the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. But in 1857, in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford decision, the US Supreme Court took away that privilege for people with African ancestry. The cornerstone of his immigration agenda: deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally.

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, a Plano Republican who represents a district west of Chicago, said the large field could make Illinois more of a player in the process.

Bobby Jindal (R) – whose immigrant descent has already attracted suspicion from birthers – tweeted, “We need to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants”. These voters were horrified by the murder of Kate Steinle and support efforts by the Republicans to pass a “Kate’s Law” that would penalize Democrat-run cities that flout federal authority to the detriment of the rule of law and the safety of citizens.

Are children of illegal aliens born on American soil U.S. citizens?

Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico in 1971, but neither of his parents were U.S. citizens or even permanent residents at the time. About 30 nations have birthright citizenship policies, including Canada, Brazil, Pakistan and Jamaica. From a political perspective, you are going after the children of illegal immigrants, a population that has been declining for several years.

Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation”, Kasich said he would then work to legalize 12 million immigrants now estimated to live in the U.S. illegally.

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

Some are even retroactive, meaning that existing US citizens would have to prove they were entitled to their citizenship, by proving the legal status of their parents.

How can it be changed?

More than 80 percent of Iowans who plan to attend the caucuses want presidential candidates to talk about immigration, according to an Iowa Poll in late May.

Besides Trump, a whole bunch of the other passengers in the 2016 GOP Clownmobile are big on ending birthright citizenship, with varying degrees of acknowledgment that this would require amending the stupid old Constitution that gets in the way of a lot of other good ideas.

Donald Trump is not the first Republican presidential candidate to float the idea of scrapping the principle that anyone born in the United States automatically becomes a US citizen.

Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, the so-called citizenship clause, was included in 1868, most scholars believe, to make sure that African-Americans, formerly slaves freed during and after the Civil War, would be able to assume their rightful place at America’s table of democracy. They point to the fact that Congress did not consider Native Americans to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and offered citizenship on a tribe-by-tribe basis until it was it was made available to all tribes in 1923.