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The Supreme Court has never ruled on the issue of whether birthright citizenship applies to children born of illegal immigrants in the United States.

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This is a case of ‘first impression’ and I support President @realDonaldTrump's efforts to have the Court review this matter.
@realDonaldTrump I will be introducing legislation to deal with the issue of birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants -- in a prospective manner -- as I have always contended it has become a magnet for illegal immigration in modern times.
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I learned a lot from President @realDonaldTrump about our efforts in Syria that was reassuring. (1/3)
@realDonaldTrump The President will make sure any withdrawal from Syria will be done in a fashion to ensure:

1) ISIS is permanently destroyed.

2) Iran doesn’t fill in the back end, and

3) our Kurdish allies are protected.
@realDonaldTrump President @realDonaldTrump is talking with our commanders and working with our allies to make sure these three objectives are met as we implement the withdrawal. (3/3)
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I’m very glad to see the President and First Lady visit our troops in Iraq.

It’s always good for morale to have a visit from the Commander in Chief.

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We must remember these troops are in Iraq to retake ground from ISIS after Obama’s ill-conceived withdrawal.

The worst thing for morale would be to give back to the enemy territory that was previously taken through blood and sacrifice.
I hope President Trump will not do in Syria what Obama did in Iraq -- which led to the rise of ISIS.

We also must not abandon our Kurdish allies who have fought so hard by our side in Syria.
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America’s worst nightmare is to have reliable allies -- like the Kurds who have fought so bravely against ISIS -- abandoned and destroyed.

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Mr. President, we will never have partners in the future.

Our nation is better than this.

Please reevaluate the Syrian withdrawal strategy.
We will hold Turkey accountable for any actions to destroy America’s Kurdish allies who have fought so bravely against ISIS.

If this happens we will, in my view, put Erdogan in the same category as MBS of Saudi Arabia.
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The Real 14th Amendment: What They Don't Teach in School
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The 14th Amendment addressed the issue of citizenship of former black slaves after the Civil War. Democrats in the 1860s were reluctant to grant their former slaves citizenship & consequently the
2) right to vote, which necessitated the 15th Amendment. No Democrat in the House or the Senate voted for the 14th or 15th Amendments.

As recent as the 1990s, Democrats & the Left were convinced of the opposite…that there were caveats and exceptions to birthright citizenship.
3) This position no longer serves their political purpose. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: our education system, the main stream media, Hollywood and the Democrat Party, have long adopted the route of Vladimir Lenin, that is: “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
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2/"Sometimes the Constitution’s text is plain as day and bars what politicians seek to do. That’s the case with President Trump’s proposal to end “birthright citizenship” through an executive order. Such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged. And the
3/"challengers would undoubtedly win. Trump has long argued that birthright citizenship for the children of parents not legally in the United States should be abolished. “It’s ridiculous. And it has to end,” he told Axios in an interview released Tuesday, in which he disclosed
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman @ChuckGrassley issued the following statement on reports that President Trump plans to eliminate birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants. judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/rele…
“The United States welcomes immigrants from all over the world who pursue the legal options available to them to seek permanent residence or citizenship in our country.” 1/3
“Birthright citizenship for the children of permanent resident immigrants under the Fourteenth Amendment is settled law, as decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Wong Kim Ark.” 2/3
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Emperor Trump thinks he can end #birthrightcitizenship by executive order.

Short answer: No.
Long answer: No, no, no.

This is such a ridiculous proposal that it's not worth spilling ink explaining. But there are dangers here.
1. American citizenship is being devalued. If it can be revoked or reinterpreted by mere executive order, it's less valuable than a Costco membership.

Remember: the admin has denied passports to (mostly) Latinos born in the US but near the border.

And there is now a denaturalization task force to revoke citizenship of certain naturalized citizens. Certainly, these attacks on US citizens are part of the administration's relentless attacks on all Americans, aspiring or otherwise.

vox.com/2018/7/18/1756…
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I’ll preface this brief rant on #birthright #citizenship by saying that, for personal, political and religious reasons, I do not identify as a Republican or a Democrat. I believe that as a Christian and pastor I must remain engaged — but not aligned.
Over the past decade, I have become increasingly selective about which issues I will weigh in on in a public forum. As a rule, I’ll avoid almost all discussions of electoral politics in the U.S. or in any of the other five countries in which I serve.
I do, however, feel completely free to discuss and debate policies and perspectives that affect orphaned and vulnerable kids, and I have praised — and criticized — politicians and pundits Democrat and Republican when they help or harm at-risk children.
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