Posted by tecwrg on 8/17/2015 8:47:00 PM (view original):
Circle this date on the calendar. BL and I agree.
Unless there's some sort of process for taking citizenship away from a naturalized citizen in the US (I'm not aware of one), then this ain't happening.
It's not happening - to change the law he'd need 2/3 support from both the Senate and House iirc.
Edit - from an article I just read:
"This can only be accomplished two ways: Trump would either have to retroactively revoke birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants, or he would have to ignore the fact that they are American citizens in order to deport them anyway.
Ending birthright citizenship in the first place, to say nothing of revoking it for people who currently hold it, would require a constitutional amendment, which would never pass. Whatever you think about the policy, it’s here to stay. That leaves the second option — deport whole families anyway, regardless of the citizenship status of individual members — as the likely immigration policy of a hypothetical Trump presidency.
As much of a bureaucratic and legal nightmare as such a policy would be — to say nothing of its massive cost and wanton disregard for the constitutional rights of American citizens — we have to take it seriously. Rather, the rest of the Republican field does. Like it or not, Donald Trump has become the GOP’s standard-bearer on immigration policy. And if that sounds ridiculous, consider this: asked about Trump’s plan today, Scott Walker embraced it, describing his plan as being “very similar” to that of Trump."
You know - Obama did set new precedent regarding pushing the law with executive orders. Hmmmm.
8/17/2015 9:43 PM (edited)