Trump Claims He Can Use Executive Order to End Birthright Citizenship

[Abaddon_ire]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

Most of europe has it with restrictions as do Australia and NZ. Have no idea about Japan.

[DodosAreDead]

I'm extremely unqualified to comment on this, but not granting illegal immigrants birthright citizenship honestly doesn't seem like that bad of a thing to me. But Trump having the power to amend the Constitution, now that's a different issue altogether.
But I do believe that anyone who is born to parents legally living in the country, whether citizens or not themselves, should get birthright citizenship. Then again, I'm probably biased, being a birthright citizen kid of non-citizen parents, so oh well.

[Divinity]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

Oh so now you want to be like Japan and Australia?

Anyone wanna remind me how many countries protect the right to bear arms in their constitution? And with no restrictions? I"ll be waiting.

[downbeatplumb]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

I think the main issue is that Trump thinks he can change the constitution by diktat. It may fail. but Trump thinks he can do it and if he can do that then he can do something like alter the number of terms you can have as president. presto chango, dictator for life.

[Seraphina]

You mean like when the "strict constructionist" conservatards rewrote the second amendment to ignore the whole "militia" thing?  That kind of conservatardism?

Militia Logic

Boru

Too real. I have quite a few old friends back in my hometown who talk exactly like that.

-Teresa

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But if this makes it to the Supreme Court, they could just rubber stamp it.

The Supreme Court cannot amend the Constitution, either.

No, but the US Supreme Court adjudicates the constitutionality of laws and of executive orders signed by the president. It's already happened with Trump's travel ban from mostly Muslim countries that he signed after he was in office a week. The Supreme Court upheld the executive order in June.

-Teresa

[Amarok]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

He's still wrong and as i understand it he never said first world .

[Joods]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

This is an interesting find.

[Minimalist]

I'm telling you, this stupid motherfucker thinks he was elected "king."

[Whateverist]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

I think the main issue is that Trump thinks he can change the constitution by diktat. It may fail. but Trump thinks he can do it and if he can do that then he can do something like alter the number of terms you can have as president. presto chango, dictator for life.

I might sign on for the Canada plan provided we get the national medicine too.

[brewer]

None of the European countries have birthright citizenship, nor Australia or New Zealand or Japan.

The only other first world country with it is Canada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

This is an interesting find.

I must be having deja vu.