"All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
The babies are US citizens. Period.

I suppose he could deport the mothers and put the babies in orphanages. Really terrible optics there.

Denying Birthright citizenship by Executive Order OR by Act of Congress. Is Unconstitutional. The Constitution must be amended to end birthright citizenship.

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Submitted by Nastarana on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 12:39pm

Oh really.

Is he going to go after Chinese "paper relatives"? Because that practice has been going on literally for decades.

I believe it is the 14th amendment which states that anyone born in the USA is an American citizen. The reason, then, right after the Civil War, was to extend the benefits and protections of full citizenship to former slaves.

If the president thinks that provision of the 14th should be altered, there is a procedure for doing so.

I think we ought to revisit the 13th Amendment, which outlaws the ownership of one human by another (slavery) BUT fails also to outlaw the buying and selling of human beings. I think prohibition of BOTH ownership and traffic in human beings should be in our constitution, and, yes, that might indeed affect adoptions, dowries and arranged marriages in general. As to the latter, if that is a part of your culture which you don't want to give up, maybe you ought not be living in the USA.

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Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 5:10pm

buying and selling of brides

@Nastarana

I think we ought to revisit the 13th Amendment, which outlaws the ownership of one human by another (slavery) BUT fails also to outlaw the buying and selling of human beings. I think prohibition of BOTH ownership and traffic in human beings should be in our constitution,

It actually is, as one cannot buy or sell what one cannot own.

Technically, when the pot head tells the cop "that stash isn't mine", he's correct.

But having trafficking being explicitly prohibited is a good idea, though, for the reasons you specify among others.

and, yes, that might indeed affect adoptions, dowries and arranged marriages in general. As to the latter, if that is a part of your culture which you don't want to give up, maybe you ought not [to] be living

The period belongs here. What Abraham Lincoln said about the United States -- that it could not survive divided against itself, half slave and half free -- applies to our whole Planet as well. If slavery (including bride trafficking and arranged marriages) is wrong at all, it's wrong everywhere, will or nill.

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Submitted by Nastarana on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:23pm

Granted,

@thanatokephaloides but we really can't be legislating for other countries. I recall in Stockton, CA, in the 1990s, a Muslim teenaged woman ran away from an arranged marriage because she wanted to finish HS and, I think, go on to college. The law was on her side, but call in programs discussing the case were inundated with Moslem, self-IDed as such, callers claiming that the American authorities didn't understand their culture. It is a part of national sovereignty that we get to decide what kinds of behavior don't get to cross our borders. And I am with you, there should be an absolute and vigorously enforced prohibition on any and all forms of enslavement and people trafficking.

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Submitted by magiamma on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 1:13pm

reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday revived his support for the legally questionable theory that citizenship is not automatically conferred on children born in the United States of illegal immigrants, in a bid to reshape immigration policies with crucial congressional elections a week away.

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Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 2:06pm

Red meat for silly season.

The guy knows how to push his base's buttons.

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Submitted by lizzyh7 on Wed, 10/31/2018 - 9:41am

Yup. Faux taught

@Not Henry Kissinger him very well on how to sling red meat and we can surely see what an avid "student" of Faux our dear leader is. Sad!

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Submitted by Nastarana on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:30pm

Down with Tyranny

stated on its blog that Trump himself rents luxury apartments to wealthy foreign pregnant women who are looking to have their newborns qualify for American citizenship. Now, what their authority is, IDK. But that is T-rump, one set of standards for the wealthy--winners in his mind--and another for everyone else.

If the allegation from DWT is true, a newsperson worthy of the name would be bringing it up at the next WH press briefing.

I think it is a ploy to get the public on board with the far right's coveted Constitutional Convention.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:49pm

I have read this too

@Nastarana

Woman don't just stay in Trump's building though, but there are plenty of other places they can go to. The first time I heard about it the person was saying "Russian woman" and tying it to Russia Gate and so I discounted it.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 6:54pm

Goodbye, Baron? And the other Trump kids?

Melania didn't come here legally and if Trump passes this then his kid should be the first one on the plane to where his mom came from. And what about his other kids? Was Ivana here legally when they got married?

Trump has kicked out 5,000 immigrants that joined the military in order to get citizenship, but he has been kicking them out before they serve their whole time. Gawd what an asshole!

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Submitted by Wink on Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:04pm

The RW is scared right to

death of the browning of America,
@snoopydawg
(and all those brown skinned Dem voters).
The Only way they can win is to do what they're doing,
purging rolls, suppressing brown skinned voters, deporting brown skins.
And they're doing a damn fine job!
In other news...
Millennials just don't give a fuck about voting...

Don't Blame Us For Not Voting

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