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9 Things You Should Know About Trump's Upcoming Executive Order Targeting Birthright Citizenship.
It Is Now The Biggest Magnet For Illegal Immigration, And By A 2 to 1 Margin, American Voters Say It Must Be Abolished.

In 1993, Then Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) Said "No Sane Country" Would Allow It. Reid said two illegal aliens having a baby should not produce an American citizen. The future Majority Leader later changed his mind.

President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an interview with Axios.
Axios said "This would be the most dramatic move yet in Trump's hardline immigration campaign, this time targeting 'anchor babies' and 'chain migration.'
"It will set off another stand-off with the courts, as Trump’s power to do this through executive action is debatable to say the least." Listed below are 9 key points.

1) Many pundits are now saying Trump cannot do this because of the 14th Amendment, but conservatives are pointing to other precedents.
The Supreme Court precedent here doesn’t involve illegal immigrants and you can make a good argument that in adopting this rule the President is acting in a foreign affairs capacity — since he’s trying to discourage people abroad from coming here — and that gets a lot of judicial deference.

2) Professor Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee Law School says "A Supreme Court opinion could hold that the core purpose of the birthright citizenry provision was to guarantee the citizenship of freed slaves, something not applicable here.
"They could say the destabilizing effect of mass migration (see Europe), along with the foreign affairs component, demonstrates that the issue is best dealt with by the political branches."

3) Former Trump administration National Security Council aide Michael Anton agrees. He says "The notion that simply being born within the geographical limits of the United States automatically confers U.S. citizenship is an absurdity — historically, constitutionally, philosophically and practically."

4) Constitutional scholar Edward Erler also agrees with Reynolds and says the entire case for birthright citizenship is based on a deliberate misreading of the 14th Amendment.
The purpose of that amendment was to resolve the question of citizenship for newly freed slaves.

5) Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, a sponsor of the legislation clarified that the amendment explicitly excludes from citizenship “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.”

6) Anton says "Freed slaves definitely qualified. The children of immigrants who came here illegally clearly don’t."

7) A compact that anyone can join regardless of the wishes of its existing members is not a compact.
As President Trump likes to say, “If we don’t have a border, we don’t have a country.”

8) This magnet attracts not just millions of the world’s poor but also increasingly affluent immigrants.
“Maternity hotels” for pregnant Chinese tourists advertise openly in Southern California and elsewhere. Fly to the United States to have your baby, and its silly government will give him or her American citizenship!

9) The problem can be fixed easily. Congress could clarify legislatively that the children of noncitizens are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and thus not citizens under the 14th Amendment.
Added October 30, 2018

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