Congress should today start work on ending expensive, and unfair to our country, birthright citizenship.
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The updated measure is "not quite as ridiculous this time as it was the last time … but still significantly ridiculous."
What my amendment would do is it would put it into the text of the bill, then they would have to file the amendment specifically to strip voter ID plus proof of citizenship.
No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will have my Complete and Total Support!
The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process.
The Republican Party was treated very fairly by the United States Supreme Court.
This Decision gives tremendous additional Power back to the Presidency, where it belongs.
Birthright citizenship has been settled law for more than 150 years.
We need to make sure illegal aliens don’t come into country and EXPLOIT our immigration system.
With this decision, the Court has, yet again, betrayed the Constitution and the American people.
President Trump is right — birthright citizenship has been abused beyond recognition.
That decision in birthright citizenship means, in effect, unless there’s an amendment to the federal Constitution, that you will have birthright citizenship for birth tourists and people coming to the country illegally indefinitely.
It’s up to them, but in terms of for the good of the country, it’d be great if they … didn’t allow it.
I will vote for the rule if you allow my amendment for voter ID plus proof of citizenship to be placed into the text of the NDAA.
The current plan being proposed by HOUSE GOP to “MIRV” NDAA + SAVE AMERICA is a procedural head fake.
Trump also called on Congress to “start TODAY” to pick up the torch of ending birthright citizenship through legislation, adding that “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!”
For his part, President Donald Trump, who tried to terminate birthright citizenship via executive order, said the court’s decision denying the change through his order was a “massive Birthright Citizenship WIN!” for President Xi and the…