Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

President Trump Readies Plan to End Birthright Citizenship Via Executive Action

President Donald Trump is moving forward with a plan to end birthright citizenship via executive action, he said in an interview with Axios released on Tuesday.
“On immigration, some legal scholars believe you can get rid of birthright citizenship without changing the Constitution,” Axios’ Jonathan Swan asked President Trump in the video interview.

“With an executive order,” Trump replied.

“Exactly,” Swan followed up. “Have you thought about that?”

“Yes,” Trump replied.

“Tell me more,” Swan implored.

“It was always told to me that you needed a Constitutional amendment–guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. “Number one, you don’t need that. Number two, you can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order. Now, how ridiculous–we are 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? It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous–and it has to end.”

Swan asked if Trump has discussed this matter with legal counsel for the White House and he confirmed he has, and that this is “in the process.”

“It will happen–with an executive order, that’s what you’re talking about right?” Trump said. “I didn’t think anybody knew that but me, I thought I was the only one.”

Revoking birthright citizenship would have immediate and far-reaching consequences. It would mean the children of i*****l a***ns, even if born in the United States, would not be bestowed U.S. citizenship upon birth. It would also likely deter the practice of foreigners having “anchor babies,” where they aim to give birth to children on U.S. soil so as to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children at birth.

In fact, the anchor baby population–those born in the United States to at least one i*****l a***n parent–has skyrocketed in recent years. According to a recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the total anchor-baby population now exceeds the annual number of U.S. citizen births from American citizens.

Trump moving forward on such plans would likely set off a legal and political battle of epic proportions, as lawsuits would come in challenging the order’s legality and the president’s authority to act via executive action on this front. But there also remains a possibility, if Republicans hold the House in next week’s midterm e******ns and add seats in the Senate, that a more permanent legislative fix not dependent on who is in the White House could come for dealing with ending birthright citizenship.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/30/watch-president-trump-readies-plan-to-end-birthright-citizenship-via-executive-action/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20181030
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Lindsey Graham to Introduce Bill Ending Birthright Citizenship ‘Magnet’ for I*****l I*********n

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) announced on Tuesday that he plans to introduce legislation ending birthright citizenship for children born to i*****l i*******ts on American soil, citing it as a “magnet for i*****l i*********n.”
President Donald J. Trump announced on Tuesday that he plans to draft an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of i*****l i*******ts born in America.

Trump told Axios’ Jonathan Swan:

But now they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order. Now, how ridiculous–we are 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? It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous–and it has to end.

Sen. Graham cheered Trump’s move against birthright citizenship, citing it as a significant “magnet” for i*****l i*********n.

“Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship,” Graham said in a statement. “I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform – and at the same time – the elimination of birthright citizenship.”

Graham continued explaining that birthright citizenship is a foreign concept in most modern countries.

The South Carolina Republican said, “The United States is one of two developed countries in the world who grant citizenship based on location of birth. This policy is a magnet for i*****l i*********n, out of the mainstream of the developed world, and needs to come to an end.”

Eliminating birthright citizenship would prevent children born of i*****l a***ns would not receive citizenship status and would likely deter the practice of foreigners having “anchor babies” where immigrants plan to give birth to children on American soil to obtain citizenship for their children.

The anchor baby population has skyrocketed in recent years. One Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study found that the anchor baby population per year exceeds the number of American citizens births from American citizens.

To enshrine Trump’s executive order into law, Graham said that he plans to draft legislation to codify the president’s changes to birthright citizenship.

Graham said, “In addition, I plan to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order from President Trump.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/30/lindsey-graham-to-introduce-bill-ending-birthright-citizenship-magnet-for-illegal-immigration/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20181030

Carol Kelly

Carol Kelly

I watched Tucker to night and it’s far worse than I thought. Trump is the man. He and Graham may save our Social Security. Could never understand why SS was going broke, suddenly watching Tucker I could see. Russians and Chinese and going to Guam. It’s unbelievable.

Kevyn

All he needs is the butt chugging attempted rapist to find four other corrupt justices in ignoring the fourteenth amendment, even with a stacked court unlikely.

Carol Kelly

You are ignored.

Geo

Republicans know that if you are stupid enough to v**e for them, then you're stupid enough to believe them when they say they care about you.



Social Security and Medicare trustees confirm: GOP policies have hurt both programs
Michael Hiltzik
By MICHAEL HILTZIK
JUN 05, 2018 | 3:15 PM

Social Security and Medicare trustees confirm: GOP policies have hurt both programs
Shown are the headquarters of the Social Security Administration in Maryland. (Patrick Semansky / Associated Press)
The publication of the annual trustees’ reports for Social Security and Medicare has become the occasion for some of the most consistently uninformed reporting on government programs of the year.

The release of both reports Tuesday was no exception. Within moments of their appearance, the Associated Press was tweeting, and later reported, that Medicare was projected to become “insolvent” in 2026, three years earlier than was projected last year.



Actually, no: The Medicare report projected that its hospital insurance trust fund, which applies to Medicare Part A, will be depleted in 2026. But since even then the program would be able to keep paying out more than 90% of scheduled benefits, it’s not anything like “insolvent.” As economist Dean Baker observes, at most it would be correct to say Medicare will face a “shortfall” in 2026, not insolvency.

The 2018 Trustees Report shows that the current program is fully affordable. Indeed, the United States can fully afford an expanded Social Security.

NANCY ALTMAN, PRESIDENT, SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS


The more glaring oversight in Tuesday’s reporting on both programs is that the trustees made crystal clear that policies of congressional Republicans and the Trump White House have damaged the financial prospects of both programs. There’s a bitter irony in that, since the GOP continually claims that it’s imperative to make both programs healthier to serve the 62 million people dependent on Social Security and 58.4 million covered by Medicare; the t***h is that the Republicans are doing their best to cut the legs out from under both.

It’s proper to note, incidentally, that the trustees of both programs are mostly Republican officeholders: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. Acting Social Security Commissioner Nancy Berryhill sits on both boards.

Here are the highlights from the reports.


COLUMN
How Trump's Obamacare administrator is taking a hatchet to Obamacare
APR 17, 2018 | 7:00 AM
First, Social Security is stable, and in some respects, improving fiscally. Its trustees expect its combined retirement and disability trust funds to become depleted in 2034, the same as was projected last year. Even then, the program would be able to continue paying out 77% of currently scheduled benefits. Since by then the scheduled benefit would be about 20% higher than it is today, the result would be close to a wash. If Congress wants to avert the cutback, nothing’s stopping it from raising the payroll tax, say by eliminating the wage cap on taxes, currently set at $128,400.

“The 2018 Trustees Report shows that the current program is fully affordable,” said Nancy Altman, a veteran Social Security advocate who is president of the group Social Security Works. “Indeed, the United States can fully afford an expanded Social Security.”

The trustees note that the fiscal condition of Social Security disability has markedly improved in the last year. Its trust fund is now expected to last until 2032, a four-year improvement over last year’s projection of depletion in 2028. The trustees attribute that improvement to a steady decline in disability caseload and new applications dating back to 2010. That gives the lie to a recurrent Republican meme that disability is little more than a haven for layabouts and malingerers.

The trustees, meanwhile, give details on how congressional and White House initiatives have harmed Social Security. First, they mention that Trump’s rescission of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the program that allowed children brought to the United States illegally by their parents to stay and become productive members of society, will reduce the number of workers paying into the program. That will reduce payroll receipts slightly but significantly in the near term; because those people won’t be receiving benefits decades from now, the system costs will be lower, but the impact of Trump’s decision still will be negative.


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Income ine******y is going to hit tomorrow's retirees hard
MAY 22, 2018 | 6:50 AM
The tax cuts enacted by Republicans and signed into law by Trump in December also will have a negative effect on Social Security in the near term, chiefly by reducing the program’s income from the taxation of benefits. “As a whole, the law has a significant net negative effect on the financial status of the OASDI program [that is, the retirement and disability components together] over the short-range projection period and a negligible net positive effect over the long-range projection period,” the trustees said.

GOP policies are projected to have a more significant effect on Medicare, according to its trustees report. A key factor is the elimination of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, which was effectively canceled as of 2019 when the tax cut bill reduced the penalty for not having insurance to zero.

The Medicare trustees note that the Affordable Care Act resulted in “significantly fewer uninsured” Americans treated at hospitals, but that trend now is likely to be reversed. The trustees reckon that the resulting increase in the number of uninsured Americans will raise costs for hospitals required to provide uninsured persons with services, and in turn increase the disproportionate share of subsidies paid to those hospitals via Medicare.

The Republican-controlled Congress also eliminated the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which had been established by the Affordable Care Act “to develop and submit proposals aimed at extending the solvency of Medicare, slowing Medicare cost growth, and improving the quality of care delivered to Medicare beneficiaries.” The elimination leaves no mechanism in place to achieve those ends, the trustees reported. Finally, the tax cuts will also reduce income for Medicare, as they do for Social Security.

Social Security and Medicare have proved remarkably resilient in the face of decades of efforts by conservatives to undermine them. The reports issued Tuesday document that they’re still in reasonably good health — but that those attacks are beginning to have their effect. If Republicans really are committed to strengthening them for the future, as they claim, the time to stop attacking them is now.

Radiance3

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That would be so great idea. So many Chinese in San Francisco going there to deliver their babies. There is a Chinese Clinic there with all pregnant Chinese coming to the US to deliver babies. It was reported that they pay a lot of money to this Chinse Clinic to help them deliver. I though that was discovered last year, and hope it was closed.

Radiance3

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https://www.aarp.org/health/medicare-insurance/info-12-2013/medicare-and-affordable-care-act.html.

Obama took $716 billion from Medicare in 2010 to initially fund the ObamaCare.

Obama also illegally robbed Fannie/Freddie mac to continue funding Medicare.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/obama_l**ted_fannie_mae_and_freddie_mac.html
https://www.infowars.com/exclusive-obama-illegally-robbed-fannie-freddie-to-fund-obamacare/

During the Obama administration, employees where mostly part time employees. Why? The mandate by Obamacare required all Employers with 50 or more emloyees working full time be fully paid medical care by employers.

Due to the cost involved, employers reduced working hours of many employees to 30. Thus they are not liable to pay medical insurance. Then the employers hired more employees to fill up the lost hours. Thus the BLS reported low unemployment rate went down to 6.7% at one time, but the fact of the matter was employees were moved to part time, and hired more part time.

The adversities caused doing this was those working part time, were all eligible for Food Stamp Programs because their income was not sufficient. Thus Food stamp claimants increased to 47 million households during the Obama Time.

Currently with very low unemployment of 3.6%, more people working, plus the income went up to 10%. Thus when more employees work, they pay to Social Security and Medicare funds. Thus the SS and Medicare funds currently has been receiving more funds. When more people work, more money is provided to the SS and Medicare program.

Thanks to president Trump for his great economic wisdom.

Radiance3

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All wrong analysis. F**E NEWS, LIBERAL PEOPLE! Written to negate president Trumps economic achievements.
All fabricated news. F**E NEWS.

Tax cuts means from Federal income tax.
Tax cuts would not reduce funding for Medicare and SS. Unless the percent deducted for SS and Medicare are reduced. It it stays the same, it would not affect the Medicare and SS funding.

Sicilianthing

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I hope it goes through but probably end up SCOTUS like some say and then SCOTUS will betray us.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Yes ---- ignore i***ts!

PeterS

Do you guys honestly not understand that a constitutional amendment can only be undone by another constitutional amendment? An EO is nothing but a joke--sadly that every conservative seems to have fallen for...

PeterS

The tax cuts are causing the deficit to increase. To close the gap caused by Trumps tax cuts the Republican House and Senate intend to cut SS and Medicare otherwise they would have to increase taxes on our millionaires and billionaires and we can't have that now, can we. I mean, wouldn't you rather have your SS and Medicare cut than have Trump and his cohorts pay any more in taxes? I mean fair is fair and it not fair for Trump and his buddies to have to pay more when those on SS and Medicare are a burden because they are taking more than they rightfully deserve.

PeterS

Nicely done...

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Yes, we honestly understand how the constitution's Article V works. We also honestly understand that an existing amendment is open to interpretation. You should know this, you have attempted to interpret the 2nd amendment to your liking on many occasions.

We also honestly understand that the president of the United States is the Chief Executive of the Executive branch of government and he is fully within his authority to interpret an amendment. He can call upon any of his cabinet or senior department heads, on congress, and SCOTUS for advisement. We also understand that president Trump can read.

In 1866, when the author of the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment, Sen. Jacob M. Howard (MI) introduced it to the United States Senate, he said this:

" . . . every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. The provision is, that 'all persons born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens.' That means 'subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof.' What do we mean by 'complete jurisdiction thereof?' Not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it means." (the term "foreigners" in this context applies also to tourists, foreign businessmen, military personnel, exchange students, relatives of American citizens--anyone traveling within or visiting the US.)

Rep. John Bingham of Ohio, considered the father of the Fourteenth Amendment, confirms the understanding and construction the framers used in regards to birthright and jurisdiction while speaking on civil rights of citizens in the House on March 9, 1866:

I find no fault with the introductory clause (S 61 Bill), which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

The Supreme Court of the United States affirmed in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship for nearly all individuals born in the United States, provided that their parents are foreign citizens, have permanent domicile status in the United States, and are engaging in business in the United States except performing in a diplomatic or official capacity of a foreign power.

As of 2015, there has been no Supreme Court decision that explicitly holds that persons born in the U.S. to i*****l a***ns are automatically afforded U.S. citizenship. Edward Erler, writing for the Claremont Institute, said that since the Wong Kim Ark case dealt with someone whose parents were in the United States legally, it provides no valid basis under the 14th Amendment for the practice of granting citizenship to U.S.-born children of i*****l i*******ts.

Put simply, an i*****l i*******t or alien IS NOT a citizen of the United States and therefore has no rights under the Constitution of the United States, including the amendments. It should be obvious to all who are not constitutional illiterates that the 14th amendment DOES NOT apply to non-citizen i******s who owe allegiance to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Venezuela, or any other country.

President Trump is simply interpreting the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment as it should be, and is going to find a way to apply it.

What really happened is when Donald Trump defeated Rotten Clinton it was like a nuclear weapon had detonated in the establishment elitist swamp, and the crazy SOBs, especially on the left, are still suffering 3rd degree emotional burns and high doses of psychological radiation. Sorry to say, there is no cure.

Sometimes when I read l*****t s**t on this board, I feel like I need a Level A HAZMAT suit. At least I can decontaminate in the shower.