#TweetOfTheDay – 14th Amendment and How Soon We Forget

I’ve said this for a very long time, anchor babies should not be citizens and therefore should not infer any rights to themselves or their family members.

Pesky Truth

Well, actually it is a thread of tweets by my friend Keith DeHavelle.

~tannngl

1. The 14th Amendment (14A)

There is an uproar over the 14A. @realDonaldTrump has indicated
an intent to sign an executive order clarifying it, and @LindseyGrahamSC has offered legislation to the same end.

The reactions are interesting.

— Keith DeHavelle (@DeHavelle) October 30, 2018

2. The left is filling up comment streams with cries of "unconstitutional!" They are wrong. Neither approach proposes to change the Constitution. Instead, they would change how one phrase in the 14th amendment is interpreted: "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof".

— Keith DeHavelle (@DeHavelle) October 30, 2018

3. The person who inserted that phrase in the 14A made it clear that the purpose was to keep it from being applied to "persons born in the United States who are foreigner, aliens, …" That is exactly the issue being addressed.

— Keith…

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