Let’s be clear that the only group impacted by Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship are……BABIES.

Babies are neither “gate crashers” nor did the “break the Law”. Punishing babies with lifelong harm, including statelessness, for the acts of the parents would be like subjecting babies to fines and defensive driving classes for a parent’s speeding.

This is nonsensical and a violation of another constitutional right: due process. (1) Furthermore, the founder would not be “spinning in their graves.” Birthright citizenship has been practice since our founding.

According to James Madison, “Birth…derives its force sometimes from place, and sometimes from parentage; but, in general, place is the most certain criterion; it is what applies in the United States. . . .”

Instead, they would be “spinning in their graves” about a President trying to gut a constitutional right with an executive order. (2)

For our youth and those concerned about the lives of children, this piece by @amylittlefield is a must read.

As you read it, understand there are two children’s agendas being considered here and nothing less than the now and future of children is at stake. (1)

https://twitter.com/amylittlefield/status/1705227126247494060

In the name of parental rights, one is about book bans, censorship, speech codes, school privatization, the whitewashing of history, science, and literature, and the complete elimination of the rights of kids to education, health, safety, privacy, and confidentiality. (2)

Watching AEI conversation with Sen. @MittRomney on the future of conservative family policy.

Child policy, including the Child Tax Credit, should be about the best interests of children and child well-being and NOT a focus for social engineering by conservative think tanks. (1) Sen. Romney said the Child Tax Credit is a "family program" but not a poverty program.

First, it is a CHILD program.

Second, nobody is suggesting that it should only benefit poor children, just that it stop harming children simply because their parents are low-income. (2)

It is NOT insightful.

First, nearly 1,500 children have died from COVID.

The idea that this is “exceedingly low likelihood of severe illness or death” is horrifying and demonstates a fundamental dismissal of concern about the lives of children. (1)

https://twitter.com/millermeeks/status/1505676166279086082

Second, hospitalization rates rose dramatically in recent months.

Deaths AND hospitalization in children should NEVER be dismissed. The parents, families, and friends of these children do not think this is not a big deal.

IT IS A BIG DEAL. (2)

In 1991, a bipartisan National Commission on Children recommended a fully refundable Child Tax Credit (CTC) to all children. Here is what Democrats and Republicans on that National Commission on Children wrote: --> medium.com/voices4kids/a-… (1) In 2017, @Sen_JoeManchin voted twice to improve the CTC -- to make it more refundable and to make it fully refundable.

In 2021, he voted, once again, to make it fully refundable. This has the effect of cutting child poverty by more than 40%!

https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1407081934916829197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1407081934916829197%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.embedly.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fsen_joemanchin%2Fstatus%2F1407081934916829197image%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Fi.embed.ly%2F1%2Fimage3Furl3Dhttps253A252F252Fabs.twimg.com252Ferrors252Flogo46x38.png26key3Da19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07

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There is a REAL children’s agenda that parents are far more concerned about than ban books or a need to scream, harass, and intimidate school board members (the same behavior they would condemn and demand disciplinary action in children).

Here is a list of examples… 🧵(1)

https://twitter.com/ngaudiano/status/1471945749432872967

First, parents want the best for their kids. They do not accept that the U.S. ranks 36th out of 38 wealthy nations in indicators of child well-being.

Banning books and screaming and harassing school boards over public health measures does not address this. (2)

Here is a little more on the idea of a Medicaid buy-in, including that proposed by Sen. @brianschatz and @repbenraylujan...

Expanding Medicaid instead of Medicare would offer more generous benefits - @pw_cunningham - Washington Post buff.ly/2WDrpKN (1) Here is how Sen. @brianschatz explains his Medicaid buy-in proposal in a USA TODAY piece. - usatoday.com/story/opinion/… (2)

The debate over Medicare for All is growing. The following are a few perspectives in today’s news:

Don't Settle for the Public Option Over Medicare for All - Splinter buff.ly/2RBtp2p (1) Among 2020 Democrats, a Debate Over 'Medicare-For-All' - NY Times nytimes.com/aponline/2019/… (2)

Not a single person of color and not a single person from the border in a discussion about the border and immigration.

There are actually at least 3 people from New York & people from North Dakota & Indiana there, but nobody from the border who has real knowledge about it. (1)

https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/1080813237489278976

If they bothered to include somebody from the border in a discussion about the border, they might have seen this. —>

https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1079884786653634561

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