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Trump vows to end birthright citizenship in challenge to 14th Amendment
[NYPOST] President Trump said he’ll sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for babies of non-citizens or illegal immigrants colonists born on US soil ‐ an action that could spark a heated constitutional battle.

"We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States ... with all of those benefits," Trump told "Axios on HBO" in a snippet of an interview that aired Tuesday. "It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end."

"It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t," Trump continued, claiming an executive order would be sufficient to change the policy.

Questioned that such an action was in dispute, Trump replied: "You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order."

Trump’s comments come as he tries to focus the debate on immigration and a caravan of Central American migrants colonists heading to the US border as the country a week before the midterm elections reels from the massacre of 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue and pipe-bomb mailings to a number of prominent Democrats.
Fox News adds:
Michael Anton, a former national security adviser for Trump, pointed out in July that "there’s a clause in the middle of the amendment that people ignore or they misinterpret ‐ subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

"What they are saying is, if you are born on U.S. soil subject to the jurisdiction of the United States ‐ meaning you’re the child of citizens or the child of legal immigrants colonists, then you are entitled to citizenship," Anton told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in July. "If you are here illegally, if you owe allegiance to a foreign nation, if you’re the citizen of a foreign country, that clause does not apply to you."
Of course the President's loyal supporter and Republican party champion, Speaker of The House Paul Ryan says it cannot be done.
That remains to be seen. In the meantime, and more importantly, the news that President Trump has announced his intention will cause a recalibration of plans across the migrating world.

Posted by: Fred 2018-10-31
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