Thread: Santorum joins calls to end birthright citizenship

August 20, 2015, 01:11 pm

Santorum joins calls to end birthright citizenship

By Ben Kamisar

Greg Nash

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) backed calls to eliminate birthright citizenship in a speech Thursday where he expanded on a platform meant to curtail both illegal and legal immigration.

“There is a legal dispute to what the language of the 14th Amendment means — to me it is something that people on both sides of this issue has legitimate arguments,” he said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

“This is one of those situations where the [Supreme] Court must step in.”


Santorum said that his immigration plan would “put an end to automatic citizenship for children born here to illegal immigrants,” though he said it is not the most important part of his proposal.

He added that while he’s sympathetic to families that are separated when undocumented parents are taken away from their American citizen children, he compared the issue to parents going to jail after robbing a bank to feed their families.

“The people who brought those children here did so breaking the law with a full understanding,” he said. “Of course I feel bad, we all feel bad, we hope people aren’t in a situation where they have to break the law to make a better life for their family, but that doesn’t obviate the fact that they’ve broken the law and that there are consequences to breaking the law.”

The 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. has become a hot-button issue this week in the GOP presidential field after front-runner Donald Trump released an immigration plan that called to end it. The issue has splintered the field, and Democrats have jumped on the issue to criticize vulnerable House Republicans.

Santorum has regularly touted his push to reduce legal immigration by 25 percent by eliminating the visa lottery program and “chain migration,” where those legally in America can petition to bring some members of their extended family to America.

“Immigration can be a good thing, but as with anything, there can be too much of a good thing,” he said.

“This is not anti-immigrant, this is pro-worker, especially those who are most affected by waves of new workers — recent immigrants, minorities and younger workers.”

Other pieces of the plan mirror views supported by a large swath of the GOP field, including strengthening E-verify, ending President Obama’s immigration executive orders and withholding federal funds from sanctuary cities.

Santorum, the runner-up for the 2012 Republican nomination, currently lags in the polls and is likely to head into the second debate in September outside of the top 10. But when asked by National Press Club President John Hughes what it would take for him to drop out of the race, Santorum cracked a joke from an old high court opinion.

“It’s sort of like the Supreme Court when it comes to pornography — you know it when you see it,” he said. “I’ll certainly know if that eventuality ever comes, but I don’t anticipate dealing with that problem.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ht-citizenship

Thank you Rick Santorum for supporting the end of automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens.

Santorum said that his immigration plan would “put an end to automatic citizenship for children born here to illegal immigrants,” though he said it is not the most important part of his proposal.

Well, what would be more important? Without citizenship for their children born here, they don't qualify for chain migration, they don't qualify for Medicaid, they don't qualify for food stamps, low income housing, WIC, TANF and so much more. We secure our voting, we secure our money, we secure our jobs because without these benefits it's much harder for them to undercut American Workers, same reason I support the FairTax where they wouldn't be eligible for the Rebate yet have to pay the FairTax when they shop, this puts them at a 24% or more comparative disadvantage in trying to undercut American Workers on wages. Ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens also makes family unit deportations much easier for our Dumb Bunnies in the federal government who for some reason believe they should kidnap the kids and put them in foster care because they think they're US citizens when they deport their parents. Have you ever heard of such a stupid thing?

We want them out, we want them all out, families intact, no child left behind, and we want them to stay out.

Well what do you think nyc & pa doing to feed the family no one told them to come over
we have to end automatic birth right citizen ship of illegal aliens & fast

Originally Posted by southBronx

Well what do you think nyc & pa doing to feed the family no one told them to come over
we have to end automatic birth right citizen ship of illegal aliens & fast

Absolutely! FAST, FAST, FAST!