Which makes Trump’s latest campaign promise to end birthright citizenship another impeachment matter. CNN has the report:
President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise in a new interview to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections.
Trump’s vow to end the right to citizenship for the children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil came in an interview with Axios released Tuesday. Such a step would be regarded as an affront to the US Constitution, which was amended 150 years ago to include the words: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
Trump did not say when he would sign the order, and some of his past promises to use executive action have gone unfulfilled. But whether the President follows through on his threat or not, the issue joins a string of actions intended to thrust the matter of immigration into the front of voters’ minds as they head to polls next week.
All it does is remind me of how woefully inadequate Trump was when he entered office, and how he hasn’t progressed a bit since then. Still completely into the show-biz aspects of being President, without a whit of intelligence concerning anything substantial.
If he were smart, he would have said “I don’t like birthright citizenship and I’ll sponsor a Constitutional Amendment,” hey, he’d look smart to the Independents, and he’d have half a chance at getting it passed, too. CNN notes:
“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits,” Trump said in an interview for “Axios on HBO.”
Several other countries, including Canada, have a policy of birthright citizenship, according to an analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for reducing immigration.
It’s worth a national debate. Heck, I might be in favor of it.
But right at the moment I’m only in favor of impeaching his sorry ass out of the Oval Office before he does any more damage to this country’s underpinnings.
