Trump Ended Birthright Citizenship, but
Legal Challenges Are Doomed to Fail
PJ Media,
by
Matt Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
1/22/2025 1:26:04 PM
President Donald Trump was so busy on his first day in office that it’s been a challenge to cover everything that he did. The best way to know which are the best ones to discuss is to look at the way Democrats are reacting to them. His pardon of J6 prisoners was a big one; they’re really up in arms about that. Another one was his executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants in the Now, Democrat attorneys general from 22 states
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 1/22/2025 1:32:24 PM (No. 1879301)
It seems likely that the challenges will fail, but I'm not up to speed on the past legal rulings on this topic. Yet.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Knotwyrkin 1/22/2025 1:37:15 PM (No. 1879304)
All this done with only one of his appointments in place. Let's get the rest in place to REALLY get moving.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
VietVet68 1/22/2025 1:58:15 PM (No. 1879312)
The end of birthright citizenship is great and it should put an end to the anchor baby scam but I worry that after it gets to the supreme court we may not like the outcome. The so-called conservatives on the court have supported some bizarre decisions.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Namma 1/22/2025 2:12:01 PM (No. 1879320)
That amendment was added for the people who were slaves or indentured servants. It was NOT MEANT FORIllegals Or anchor babies. Especially the babies born to non citizens.
Stop mining words here. Just cause you’re born here does not make u a citizen. If so then those mothers should have to leave the baby here and they go back to their own country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/22/2025 2:57:18 PM (No. 1879335)
Trump is no stranger to legal problems and challenges. There is always a way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 1/22/2025 2:58:07 PM (No. 1879338)
Losing on this is going to KILL the dems. They have been acting on the basis that there have been no recent rulings that clarify the matter. Dems take the attitude that "If you don't specifically tell me I can't, I'm going to do it. even if it is a really bad thing to do and probably illegal.". Remember BJ Clintoon's "Don't ask, don't tell." policy? If they told, they would have been booted out of the military.
Trump is going to let the dems drag it before the courts and get a favorable ruling that completely blows the dems out of the water, in many ways. Of course dems will then rail about the SCOTUS. But no one will care. Every loss is tearing the dems apart. In 4 years, there may be little left of them.
BO wanted to fundamentally transform America. This is payback. We are going back to an America before the Left started to tear it apart.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
sw penn 1/22/2025 3:09:26 PM (No. 1879347)
Birthright Citizenship was a generosity and a grace
when it might have been a few to a couple dozen souls per year.
Back when people respected the rule of law.
But, like all things when people learned it could be abused,
it was.
Now it must be restored.
Not to punish innocent babies,
but, to dissuade millions of corrupt opportunists...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 1/22/2025 3:21:43 PM (No. 1879357)
#6 is right. My read of the discussions leading to the amendment fully support the idea that those who salute other flags, who have not renounced their previous allegiance/have allegiance only to the us, do not have A14 protections. It is up to Congress to make such changes as appropriate. But thanks the the ACLU, SCOTUS is most likely to rule (more quickly) consistent with its history
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I have not researched the writings of those who argued for and against this provision of the 14th Amendment enough to understand what they intended, let alone to understand what the justices on the Supreme Court will think they intended. Trump's ending of birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens is plausible, but, based on my reading of what those who argued for and against the 14th Amendment said about other parts of it, the argument for birthright citizenship is also plausible.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/22/2025 4:36:56 PM (No. 1879389)
We probably need a new Constitutional Amendment that spells out unambiguously, in plain language, the right of the people to keep and bear arms and that there is no birthright citizenship associated with being in this country illegally. That would clean up the arguing over clauses that are not explicitly obvious short of historical research projects or the judging of imputed intent. Scholars and jamokes with an agenda, sometimes one and the same, have interpreted and "modernized" the language of the Holy Bible many times, based on the original Hebrew and Greek interpretations, such that the King James Version is increasingly rare. OTH, the King James Version is but an interpretation, itself.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/22/2025 4:51:00 PM (No. 1879397)
Congress should modernize the concept of birthright citizenship as stated in the 14th Amendment, that was a Civil War era amendment that was passed to make it clear that black slaves born in the USA were US Citizens. Then the Supreme Court should uphold the modernization of birthright citizenship, as back when the 14th Amendment was passed there was no such thing as mass uncontrolled illegal immigration where illegal aliens could unlawfully enter the USA, the next day give birth to a baby, proclaim that since their baby was covered by birthright citizenship, that the entire illegal alien family should be allowed to stay in the USA, regardless that the US immigration laws considered them to be illegal aliens subject to arrest and deportation, that in essence has been occurring hundreds of thousands of times each year across the USA in obvious misuse of the 14th Amendment.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
crashnburn 1/22/2025 6:21:22 PM (No. 1879436)
Children born to diplomats in the USA are not automatically US citizens. Why should children born to illegal aliens in the USA automatically be US citizens?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/23/2025 1:34:41 AM (No. 1879700)
It is not complicated. #12, is right. Illegals, students, visa holders, etc. none of them have the rights of a US citizen. The amendment is clear that anyone under the jurisdiction of someplace else, and who has a child here, means that child is their problem, not ours. Which is why creepy Harris was NOT eligible to be VP. Her parents weren't citizens and the dopey Republicans did not press the issue. Shame on them. We only dodged a bullet because she was horrible.
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