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Trump vows end to birthright citizenship on 'day one' — including changing Constitution (www.rawstory.com)

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President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his promise to end birthright citizenship on his first day in office despite constitutional protections.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone have a non-paywall link to this article?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

No need. I'll summarize:

Trump says he'll do something he can't do. So in effect, nothing at all is going to happen.

[–] grue 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Trump says he’ll do something he can’t do. So in effect, nothing at all is going to happen.

You say that as if he hasn't already done literally dozens, if not hundreds, of things the law says he can't do and gotten away with them all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's a totally fair take but in this case he really can't do anything at all. It'd be like standing in front of a podium and declaring that the sun is black and then stepping away. Getting rid of birthright citizenship is one of those things where everyone has to agree to do it. Otherwise it's just an old man yelling at a cloud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

An old man with the power of the military, and a government full of bootlickers put in place to do whatever he wants. It doesn't matter if it's illegal if they've removed everyone that would stop him

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Thank you for the summary. It is much appreciated 😊

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his promise to end birthright citizenship on his first day in office despite constitutional protections.

In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, host Kristen Welker pressed Trump on his campaign promise to do away with birthright citizenship.

"You've promised to end birthright citizenship on day one," Welker noted. "Is that still your plan?"

"Yeah, absolutely," Trump insisted.

"The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens," Welker pointed out. "Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?"

"Well, we're going to have to get a change," Trump remarked. "We'll maybe have to go back to the people. But we have to end it."

"Through an executive action?" the NBC host asked.

"Well, if we can, through executive action," Trump replied. "I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be honest with you. We have to end it."

[–] paraphrand 6 points 3 days ago

I’m glad he fixed COVID.