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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, releases the following statement in the wake of news reports that President Trump intends to restore the plain meaning of the 14th Amendment by ending the mistaken practice of granting American citizenship at birth to the children of illegal aliens. King is the recognized leader in Congress on this effort, and is the lead author of HR 140, a bill ending “birthright citizenship’ that he has introduced in each Congress since 2011.
“I am delighted to learn that President Trump intends to end automatic citizenship at birth for the children of illegal aliens whose parents have no ties, and owe no allegiance, to the United States,” said King. “Granting ‘birthright citizenship’ is a historical mistake which attempts to erase the phrase ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ out of the 14th Amendment in defiance of what the framers of that amendment were attempting to achieve. Ending ‘birthright citizenship’ for illegal aliens will decimate the disgusting ‘birth tourism’ industry, and it will ensure that illegal aliens cannot use ‘anchor babies’ in order to take advantage of our overly generous welfare system. I commend the President for his actions, and I am very happy that my legislation will soon be adopted by the White House as national policy.”
The operative text of the 14th Amendment reads as follows:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Congressman King has written extensively on the legal scholarship behind his effort to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment. Those wishing additional background information are encouraged to read this King op-ed: Ending Birthright Citizenship Does Not Require A Constitutional Amendment.
An excerpt:
“By its own terms, the language in the amendment precludes the notion of universal automatic birthright citizenship. It would have been quite simple for the language to exclude ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ to accomplish the goal of bestowing citizenship on any child born in the United States no matter the status of their parents. The 14th Amendment’s addition of a jurisdictional requirement to the territorial requirement, however, denies any interpretation that birth alone grants citizenship.
Counter to this logic, proponents of universal automatic birthright citizenship claim that those born in the United States necessarily are subject to the jurisdiction of the country. However, this renders the language ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ superfluous. Why would the drafters of the 14th Amendment include this qualifier at all if it was met simply by virtue of being born in the United States? The legislative history outlined below will make clear that the addition of ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ was designed specifically to make sure the people granted citizenship did not have divided political loyalties.”
HA, HA, HA. KING WINS AGAIN! Suck it LOSERS!
Le me get this straight….the Second Amendment must be upheld but to hell with the 14th?
How then did the OBAMA manage to get all his executive orders passed – Such as the dreamers act? What a hypocrite azzhole you are. You liberals scare us with your childhood antics.
Donald Trump revealed that he wants to end birthright citizenship through executive order….But he doesn’t have that power.
An executive order cannot reverse the guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States that is enshrined in the constitution.
Just more BS and lies by Trump and his dumbass bigot & racist little bitch, Steve King.
Trump’s claim that the United States is the only country the world that practices automatic citizenship for those born within a nation’s
borders is inaccurate as 38 other countries around the globe also have birthright citizenship, including Canada.
Once again, more ignorance displayed by Trump along with his average of over 30 lies/day professed by Trump in recent weeks.
And you Trump supporters just eat up Trump’s fear-mongering prior to the mid-term elections….Dumbasses.
“The authority to amend the Constitution of the United States is derived from Article V of the Constitution.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution,
or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of US states.”
I don’t know who you are but I could not agree with you more. I agree with every word you said! You sir are on point. Thank you!!!
That makes two dumb asses. Obama used executive power to create the dreamer act. Trump can use it to stop illegal birthright.
Too bad about that pesky constitution
Good old SS nazi steve King. He makes iowa look like the 1930’s Germany. Can’t go anyplace now that they don’t think I’m a good old Iowa racist nazi! Thanks Hitler steve King and all the idiots that voted and will vote for him.
What can I say except: you’re welcome?
Your not welcome and to hell with you, kkk steve King, white nationalist Donald Chump, nazi steve west out of Missouri and everyone who votes for these killer racist rapist that are pushing for a race war. Let’s not forget the media and pecker heads like George Soros. The “Koke” head brothers as well.
That’s all you got is to call someone names while posting under Anonymous? What a typical, Democrat coward you are. Think how bad you are going to feel when you lose again.
^That’s all you got is to call someone names while posting under Anonymous? What a typical, Democrat coward you are.^ Says the Anonymous poster.
King is a Trump clone. The two of them claim to be Nationalists. I am sure a lot of the followers of both men also like Nationalism. Morons all.
King has Trumps back and the will power of over 85% of the American citizens – The other 15% are either Mexicans of some sort or better take note CHINESE who are also invading our country and NOT for the good of our country either. OH YEA ! Keep shouting Russians when the Chinese are sneaking in the back door to destroy America – FOOLS !
The wall can’t be built fast or high enough and is more needed than ever before now that we experienced this caravan of demanding invaders. Mexico offered the caravan asylum and jobs and thousands refused the offer. The caravan’s many criminals also opened fire at the Mexican police. They don’t want to work and live in Mexico, they want to come to the USA for a free ride while burning and disrespecting the American flag.
I love how many forget history. You racist pigs are being played like a fiddle. Big business takes more, gives less than foreigners ever will.
Big Business loves illegal immigrants. They are great for breaking up unions and crushing American workers who want living wages.
White on!
It is our government that makes it almost impossible to form a union.
As soon as I see a phrase like ‘racist pigs’, I put the comment into the comedy bin.
Wanna BET ? Constitution never intended for foreighers or illegal person to have automatic birthright in America = welfare for all ? We don’t think so obama.
In 1868, there was virtually no immigration process and no “illegal” aliens.. You lived in Ontario and liked that farm down the road in New York? You just walked over, bought it, and lived there.
You say with certainty that the 14th amendment was meant to exclude illegal immigrants–a class of people which didn’t exist in the 1860s. Do you have some citation that supports that?
Maybe true for Canadians but not Mexicans. Back in those days Mexicans simply could not become US citizens – and thus certainly not landowners – since they were not white.
You are truly a DUMB ASS! The color of their skin has nothing to do with it. There are millions of fair skinned Mexicans and they were classified as Caucasion until they decided to change it back in the 70’s. It is people like you who cause racial tension with your bull shit remarks.
The meaning of white varies by time and place. Mexicans certainly were not considered white regardless of skin tone back then. It wasn’t that long ago when Italian and sometimes even Irish immigrants were considered non-white by the majority population. Meanwhile, somalis today believe they are Caucasian. Go figure…
Bull Shit-I can show you IRS forms that say different. Once again you are letting your ass overload your mouth.
SHow us your IRS tax forms Larrey buddy.
“It would have been quite simple for the language to exclude ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’”
By Kings logic then, the 2nd amendment was not intended to protect individual gun ownership, because it would have been “quite simple” for the language to exclude ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,’
Realistically, birthright citizenship isn’t going to end by executive order. Still, its good the topic is brought up. Almost one fifth of the US population is Hispanic these days while Caucasians have become a minority in the county that they founded, and this is largely a product of the 14th amendment.
The “country they founded”?
California, Texas, and the rest of the southwest was founded by the Spanish and subsequently acquired by Mexico and then the US.
My wife is Mexican-American. Her family was in San Antonio since the late 1700s, long before the illegal immigrants from the US took over Texas in the 1830s, and way before the Krauts and Norskes came to Iowa.
Yawn. No one cares about some third world communities that were conquered and destroyed by white Northern Europeans so that they could create the finest country the world has ever seen: the United States of America.
As for your inlaws, they probably jumped the border and got their papers in one of the amnesties, just like millions of other ex-illegals who all claim to hail from a few thousand Tejanos.
Senator King? Interesting that you frequent this site. Hope you lose.
Lol, I think the title is congressman but oh well
So, does your wife berate you for your ‘grandfathered-in’ guilt? Sounds like she should.
Guess what? We all have ancestors that did good and bad. You can celebrate, or you can mourn and apologize if you want, or you can proceed as if you actually live in the here and now. Our Southern border is being overrun by illegal immigrants. Enough is enough, and everybody knows it.
well spoken!
It’s not congressman it’s Klansmen Steve King and klansmen Donald Chump and all of his little small penis followers. Just as dumb as they are. No one in their right mind could be proud of being a white barbaric killer and social pathology lied. Look deeper in your books. Much of the southern part of this country was owned and occupied by peaceful Hispanic people until the white barbaric, lieing, disease inflicting killers came along and Stolled their land just like they did to the Indians. 82 killers, rapest, thieves and pedifiles got off that boat with Columbus and infected this land with satans Demond’s with hell close behind. You didn’t build the greatest country in the world in the sense you talk about. You built the greatest country when it comes to murder, rape, incest, Pedophilia, lies, satan worshiping, theft, slavery and everything bad. Hell” you white angry men are now the number one terrorist threat to the very same country you stole and are now trying to justify harming these migrants trying to come back to the land that they by blood rights own. This country was founded by masons and secret societies that are Satan controlled. That’s why there is no peace in this country and there will never be any peace here as long as we have people like Klansmen Steve King and those who believe his lies and worship his devil. He is a nazi white pig faced racist and everyone who votes for him and defends him is the same trash he is. If you are not one of these people, you better stand up and fight them because they will be coming for you after they take out the union trades worker, after they take out the socialist, the Mexican, the blacks, the Jews, the old, the poor, those in need. Anyone who is not like them. I hate racist people with a passion because they are the devil and he is full of lies, division, and murder. F-you Klansmen steve King and everyone like you! Racist, ignorant, pig faced, small pecker, low IQ devil.
Well said! I agree. F U Klansmen King and your nazi followers!
Dude. Spell check! I may not agree with all your saying but I agree with standing up against these demons not Demond’s! And yes F U kkk steve king! I won’t capitalize your name because you don’t deserve any respect. Your a filthy nazi!
I guess NAZI is the Democrats new word to use when they have nothing else. It used to be racist.
Nazis are racist. Duh.