Trump Must Fight Absurd ‘birthright citizenship’ Rules to Stem Border Crisis; Tom Homan Doesn’t Think Birthright Citizenship Is Enshrined in Constitution

Trump must fight absurd ‘birthright citizenship’ rules to stem border crisis:

“Birthright citizenship” may sound benign, but thanks to an overreaching Supreme Court decision 126 years ago, it’s the biggest legal hole in our border.

President-elect Donald Trump has the opportunity to seal it, but it won’t be easy.

When the Supreme Court handed down its United States v. Wong Kim Ark decision in 1898, illegal immigration was nothing like the crisis it is now.

And the subject of that case, Wong Kim Ark, was the son of legal immigrants — permanent residents, in fact.

But in the 21st century, liberal legal experts insist the court’s ruling now means any child born on American soil is automatically a citizen.

Convicts fleeing across our borders?

Tren de Aragua killers?

Terrorists sneaking into the country?

Their kids all become Americans if they’re born on our soil.

It’s an outrageous, absurd situation, and Trump has vowed to stop it.

He renewed that vow on “Meet the Press” Sunday — “we’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” he told host Kristen Welker.

Birthright citizenship at present is so ridiculous, it even gives children of illegal immigrants rights that naturalized citizens — and some Americans born to citizen parents — don’t have.

For example, it allows them to be elected president.

“No Person except a natural born Citizen” can hold that office, according to the Constitution.

That excludes everyone who’s come from another country and explicitly pledged his or her loyalty to this country, and it even excludes children of American citizens who are born outside the United States or its territories.

But according to the crackpot interpretation of birthright citizenship that progressives have pressed into service in our day, the children of illegal aliens with no loyalty to this country — or worse, actual hostility to this country — are “natural born citizens.”

If Mohamed Atta or another 9/11 hijacker had a son while in this country, that boy would have top-tier US citizenship.

Foreign elites routinely take advantage of this loophole to acquire all the rights, privileges and immunities of being American for their offspring.

All an official of, say, Communist China has to do is fly his pregnant wife to the United States and have her give birth here. —>READ MORE HERE

Tom Homan Doesn’t Think Birthright Citizenship Is Enshrined in Constitution:

President-elect Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said he doesn’t think birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Speaking in an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Homan, the former acting ICE director, expressed skepticism about whether the principle of granting citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil is protected under the Constitution.

“I think that’s up to the courts, I think it needs to be held by the Supreme Court,” Homan told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she said Trump’s pledge to end birthright citizenship “is no easy feat, given that it is enshrined in the Constitution.”

“I kind of disagree with you, I don’t think it’s enshrined in the Constitution at all – not the way I read it,” Homan replied. “But then again, I’m not a constitutional scholar. We’ll let the courts decide that on the birthright citizenship.”

Homan said that birthright citizenship is “a major magnet for illegal immigration” and that the country has to “stop rewarding illegal behavior.”

“Yeah, of course, it’s the 14th amendment, as you know,” Collins responded. —>READ MORE HERE

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