Thread: RUSH: There's Nothing in the Constitution About Anchor Babies (Anchor Democrats)

Donald Trump's Latest Fight Against the Drive-By Media


ANCHOR BABIES = ANCHOR DEMOCRATS = ANCHOR CHEAP LABOR


August 20, 2015

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RUSH: I never want to sound like one of those off putting, arrogant, condescending know-it-alls, but I don't know how I can avoid it here. This argument over the 14th Amendment and anchor babies is one of the greatest illustrations how even some of the brightest people in this country do not understand the Constitution. There's nothing in the 14th Amendment about anchor babies. (interruption) You think there is? You do or don't? (interruption) There's nothing in the 14th Amendment that says if you are born to a mother who is a citizen that you're automatically a citizen. It isn't there. Even some of our presidential candidates think that it is.

The Constitution is very clear: Congress has sole discretion over defining who is and who isn't a citizen and how you become one. It's not the 14th Amendment. There's a Breitbart story: "Trump, Reporter Spar Over Term 'Anchor Baby.'" And then there's a Los Angeles Times story: "Jeb Bush Says 'Anchor Babies,' Hillary Clinton Responds on Social Media." Everybody's upset over the term, as though it's some sort of PC, political correctness violation or something, anchor babies.


I don't know, folks, it's irrelevant. The Constitution says nothing about anchor babies. The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship. And look at all the people who think that it does. The Constitution says Congress has complete control over who is and who is not a US citizen. And, by the way, here's a little shocker for you. Even the Supreme Court, back when it used to makes sense, the Supreme Court has never ruled that a baby born to illegal aliens in the US is automatically a citizen. Did you know that? And look at how many people just automatically accept that as the case.


I mean, this came up last night on Hannity. Brother Levin, Mark Levin, who is a constitutional expert, you want to talk about exasperation, here's somebody who thinks it's simple to understand the Constitution. Just read it. It's written in plain English, and it's not hard to understand it whatsoever. The14th Amendment does not require birthright citizenship. It doesn't mention it. Trump is right about it, and the media is arguing with him. That's why the Breitbart story: "Trump, Reporter Spar Over Term 'Anchor Baby.'"

Let's grab those bites real quickly. Number 16 we'll start. CNN special report, Donald Trump interview, Chris Cuomo. He's a guy who thinks he knows a lot more than he does, and those kind of people are dangerous. They're talking about immigration. Cuomo says, "People in the GOP are worried that you're gonna alienate, excuse the pun, the Hispanic population, when you have 28 million voters, pulling the birthright exception that maybe constitutionally dubious, you shouldn't be taking such an extreme position. What do you say about that?"


TRUMP: At some point we have to be honest with ourselves. It's called -- now they like to use the word "undocumented" because it's more political. I don't use that word. They're illegal immigrants. They came over illegally. Some are wonderful people and they've been here for a while. They gotta go out.


CUOMO: But how do you do it in a practical way? You really think you can round up 11 million people?


TRUMP: You know what? At some point we're gonna try getting back the good ones. You have a lot of good ones.


CUOMO: You send a mixed message though, Mr. Trump, because you're gonna get rid of whole families, but then you say you want them back.


TRUMP: You gotta go. They're illegal. We have a country, we have to have a border.


RUSH: Don't forget the story we found yesterday. I shared with you from 2008 an AP story about how Mexican legislators, the equivalent of our state senators, sent a delegation to Arizona demanding that we stop sending illegal immigrants back. They didn't want them. They came here to threaten us. They didn't want the people back in Mexico that are, quote, unquote, immigrating here illegally. Again, it's not immigration, folks. This is another one of these things, we're going to have to change terms if it takes redundancy, sorry, to change terms. But we're not talking about immigration, we really are not.


We're up now to 11 million or 15 or 20 million people, whatever it is over whatever length of time, this is not immigration. By definition it isn't because they're illegal. They are not immigrants. They have not immigrated. They have invaded. It's that simple. We're never gonna get to the bottom of this really if we don't define the terms. But that's a side light issue. Trump and his effort here to explain why we need to deport. "We'll get the good ones back. But they gotta go." They can come back here legally. And Cuomo said, "So the citizenship for those babies, you would revoke it now, retroactively?"


TRUMP: Number one, the 14th Amendment is very questionable as to whether or not somebody can come over, have a baby and immediately that baby is a citizen.


CUOMO: I know the court has pretty much said that it reads in immigrants here. This is a minority legal opinion you're talking about.


TRUMP: There are many people that totally feel that --


CUOMO: (crosstalk) -- want it that way.


TRUMP: Amending is too big a deal. It would be two terms. I'd be in my second term on my eighth year by the time assuming everything went smoothly because to ammend the Constitution --


CUOMO: It takes a long time, especially on a very divisive issue.


TRUMP: I believe you can win it legally, okay?

RUSH: Again, it's a shame. It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position. Listen here to Chris Cuomo, "I know the courts pretty much said and agreed that it reads in immigrants here. It's a minority legal opinion you're talking about, minority legal opinion." The 14th Amendment says nothing about birthright citizenship. It just doesn't. As I say, Brother Levin made the point exquisitely last night. They want the Constitution to say that. They want people to believe the Constitution says that if you are born to on a illegal alien mother, that you are automatically an American citizen. They want to insist that that's what the Constitution says, but it doesn't. And again a reminder, the Supreme Court has never ruled that the children of illegal aliens are American citizens.

The Supreme Court has only granted citizenship to the children born to legal immigrants, not illegal. Who in their right mind ever thought that the birth of a child to an illegal immigrant converted to citizenship? A lot of people believe it. It's not in the 14th Amendment. You know where it is?

It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 4.

Here's what it says: "The Congress shall have power to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." You know what that means. That means Congress decides who becomes a citizen and how. To automatically say the 14th Amendment grants birthright citizenship, no, we can't change that. Amending the Constitution, not possible, takes too long. We gotta find another way of dealing with this. No, we don't, because it's not there. You don't have to amend the Constitution.

Now, the 14 Amendment excludes Indians, i.e., Native Americans as US citizens because it was felt they had allegiance to their own national tribes and so forth, but there's nothing in it, and yet it's a matter of debate? The interesting thing is how it got started and how long ago and how deeply believed and embedded in our society it is. I mean, I can imagine that many of you hearing me say this think I have to be wrong. Maybe, you know, I'm well-intentioned and you know I'm not lying to you, but maybe I'm wrong because everybody knows that if you're born in America, you are a citizen. No, you're not.


Now, clearly the invaders think so. It's one of the reasons they're coming. They come pregnant, they give birth, they think automatically there is citizenship involved. So that's one thing to straighten out. And as I say, the truth here happens to be perceived by a lot of people as the extreme position when all it is is a literal interpretation of the Constitution, which to a lot of people, the Second Amendment is an extreme position.


In light of that, try this. This is from the Washington Free Beacon. "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been releasing illegal immigrants with violent criminal records back into local US communities, where they have often gone on to commit violent crimes against American citizens, according to new disclosures by a leading lawmaker and local law enforcement agencies. Rep. Matt Salmon (R., Ariz.) and law enforcement officials petitioned the Obama administration on Wednesday to end a policy that enables illegal immigrants with criminal records to be released back into the United States."


This is all happening from the Regime, this is Obama doing this, and if I didn't know better I would say it's almost as if Obama is working for the Trump campaign, just handing him this immigration issue each and every day and in the process undermining Hillary.


"Arizona law enforcement officials announced on Tuesday that three illegal aliens with violent criminal records had been released by DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) back onto the streets, where they went on to commit crimes including kidnapping and murdering an infant. The ongoing release of criminals from countries such as Iraq, Sudan, and Russia prompted Salmon to petition DHS 'to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally.'


And here's a pull quote from the story. "Despite the repeated attacks on American citizens by illegal aliens released from our jails, DHS refuses to stop freeing violent criminals who are in our country illegally." That is a quote from Matt Salmon in his letter to the Department of Homeland Security. Why would you do this? Prison overcrowding? Is that the excuse? You know, we're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody. This is an excuse being used all over the country, particularly in the Southwest and the far western states.


Why would you do this? Under what rubric of common sense would you release violent criminals who are illegal back onto the streets in America? Why would you not deport them? I mean, you have them. It's not like you have to go to the shadows and find these people. They are in your jail cell. They're in your prison cell. Why would you release them into the general population? (interruption) Obama doesn't want to be called the deporter-in-chief. No, no, no. That doesn't answer the question.


Maybe the question needs to asked, why would you want to release hardened criminal illegals back into the streets of American cities? Why would you do that? Maybe the question, not why wouldn't you deport them. Why would you do that? Why would you release them, number one. Number two, why release them back onto the streets of America when they are not here legally? The answer to those questions is not pleasant. What could the answers be? You must want that circumstance. Don't tell me that there aren't any other options. "Well, we can't deport them, Rush, Obama doesn't want to be called a deporter-in-chief."


That's not a reason. It's going on for some reason. Somebody has reason. Is it to curry favor with Hispanics? So this is how you do it? In order to get the Hispanic vote, you let their violent criminals out of jail? That's how you get their vote? Is that what's going on? I don't know. Somebody has to tell me.

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RUSH: You see how Hillary Clinton tried to jump on Jeb Bush for talking about "anchor babies"? Hillary tweeted, "They aren't called 'anchor babies.' They're called 'babies,'" which is a bit ironic given that Hillary's a big supporter of Planned Parenthood where "babies" are called "tissue mass" and, what, "unviable cells"? Whatever it is. Are you kidding me? All of a sudden now they're "babies" to Hillary Clinton of Planned Parenthood fame? They're not anchor babies?


Now, the Drive-By Media, they're trying to outlaw the phrase "anchor babies" because it's effective. By the way, who created this? It's not as though this term is a derogatory one created by us. This term has been widely used by everybody out there. Some reporter tried to shame Donald Trump for using it, and Trump said, "Well, what am I supposed to call 'em?" I've been thinking about it, folks.



If we can't call 'em "anchor babies," what do we call them? Anchor Democrats? 'Cause that's how the Democrats are looking at them all. Or if you're a member of the Republican elite, Chamber of Commerce, "anchor cheap labor"? If they're not anchor babies, I don't know what to call them. This is just... It's amazing to see all of this explode the way it is. And it's creating all this talk about immigration, illegal immigration. For the first time it's out there, folks. It's out there on our terms.

It's being discussed in ways the Republican Party never would. It's being discussed in ways the Democrat Party never would. Because in the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party -- executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is -- to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.


It's a gigantic issue for a lot of people in this country because the issue itself, the whole subject contains elements of what many people think is going wrong in this country, not just immigration, but all of the resulting impacts. Like I said yesterday, imagine this country without the 20 million illegals that are here. Imagine the state of California. And this is not... It's nothing more than an exercise. It's nothing more than a little game to play with yourself. Because it's instructive.


And you can readily conclude the vast difference -- economic, cultural, you name it. The state of California would not be lost to the Republicans; it would still be in play. The state of California would not have become the state that it is. You know, California is many things, and it is a harbinger of what this country will become if this kind of thing isn't stopped. You're gonna have a very rich, very powerful minority of elites -- very, very tiny -- and they're gonna live in a very few, small, gated enclaves.

Everybody else is gonna have no upward mobility whatsoever, because the opportunities are gonna have been choked off.


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RUSH: You know, we sit here, the world's lone superpower, the greatest nation in the history of nations, the most phenomenal country ever on the face of the earth, the greatest standard of living, a structured government and population based on freedom and liberty of the individual that exists nowhere else and never has. And, as such, we have borders.


Now, obviously since we are special and unique, and if you want to use the word "exceptional," feel free, it's quite understandable, human nature, a lot of people not born here would like to come on here. But why is it written, where does it say that we must allow anyone who wants to come to this country to come in and become a citizen. I mean, this is a very, very tough thing to discuss. I have told you a couple of times I witnessed a knock-down, drag-out argument over this issue between a friend of mine and a very, very well known media figure whose name I've never mentioned because it's not really the point who it is. He's just a well-known daytime TV media figure, and you can assume correctly from that that he's a bleeding heart.


At every stage of the argument, my friend led with statistics, provided evidence of what is happening, the negative impact of all of this. And the famous daytime TV personality could not answer any of it, could not refute any of it, and didn't care. He finally got so frustrated, he said, "Look, I don't care about any of that. If somebody, if some poor person wants to come to my country because they want to improve themselves and better themselves, then I don't have the right to tell them they can't come, and neither do you."


And there you have it. We don't have the right to tell less fortunate disadvantaged people that they can't come here and get what we have. You see, that's all predicated on the fact that what we have is simply luck and it isn't fair that the rest of the world doesn't have it. The rest of the world could have it. Human civilization has been around however many number of years you want to add up.


We've been around less than 250 years, and in less than 250 years we have created what is the greatest country on earth. There are reasons for it. And any other country on earth could do the same thing. They could structure it the same way, and if they don't have natural resources they could economically structure a way to barter, share, buy, trade, you name it. They could do the same thing.

Instead, most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason. Well, two. They have this megalomaniacal desire to control people, and the second reason, it may even be the first reason, is to get rich, is to basically steal as much money circulating in the country as they can. They assemble powerful armies to keep themselves in power and to make sure that anybody who doesn't like it is dealt with.


We've never had that here. Quite the opposite. And yet there are people who think that it's not fair. Phil Donahue. Remember this story? I watched Phil Donahue on his own show one day practically start crying over what he called the accident of his birth. Yeah, he said if I'd have just been born 50 miles south, I would be a Third World citizen mired in a mud hut in poverty. And he couldn't get past the guilt of that, that there was nothing special about him. He just happened to be where he was born, that isn't fair to anybody else, so who are we to tell people they can't come here?

And of course it's the wrong answer. The wrong answer is the rest of the world needs to be fixed, improved, straightened out, 'cause it can happen. All they have to do is overcome liberalism around the world. All they have to do is overcome socialism. I mean, it's tough, it'd be challenging to do, but the answer is very simple. Our way of life, our government defines the way this country is. I mean, it's not luck. We're not the winners of life's lottery here, because within our own borders are people living lives of misery, particularly those names that have been released from the Ashley Madison hack.


Not everybody here is rich. Not everybody here is independently wealthy. Not everybody here is free from any kind of economic concern. We run the gamut here, too. It's the opportunity to escape that that exists here, for very specific reasons. But it's not because the US is where it is. It's not because our DNA is different than anybody else's. It's because of the way we have structured our affairs, our government.


I'm getting off the beaten path a bit here, but the point is that there are so many like this famous TV personality who just can't deal with the fact that there are other people that do not either have what we have or don't have the opportunity to get it. "How can we sit here and have access to all this? It's not fair. If they want to come, they've gotta come. I couldn't tell 'em no. I couldn't live with myself if I told 'em 'no.'" And that's, unfortunately, the attitude of many ordinary Americans. They make themselves feel better by saying what the famous daytime TV idiot says. But it leads to absolute calamity and disaster, as we are seeing.


RUSH: Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson, number two now in many presidential polls on the Republican side, is visiting the US-Mexico border, and he continued yesterday. He was in Cochise County, Arizona, and he looked at the fence. He said (summarized), "You know what? This isn't gonna do it. The fence that we have here is not cutting it. This is small impediment." Dr. Carson said, "That fence is not gonna keep anybody out." He said that he favors armed drones patrolling the border. Right on, Dude! Dan you imagine armed drones patrolling the border? We are moving this conversation, folks. This conversation is taking a trip to places it hasn't been in a while.


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Rush is right, almost. There is no rule, law, court decision, constitutional clause, nothing that requires our government to handout passports and social security numbers to children of illegal aliens. NOTHING. In fact, the Constitution requires they only do that when or if a person is born here subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, which means children of US citizens. The 14th Amendment does govern US citizenship in that regard. But he's right on the rest of it, naturalization clause is solely Congressional on how people legally in our country can become citizens if they choose to do so and then once they do become citizens, then their minor children become citizens if they want to. But naturalization requires the oath to the United States, hopefully something they would take seriously and mean, although there's no way and much doubt about it until they have to forfeit that passport to their homeland.

Not ONE European Country Has Automatic Birthright Citizenship to Children Born There Illegally


August 20, 2015

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RUSH: You know, they're always telling us that we need to be more like Europe, that Europe is sophisticated. I mean, the Democrats are telling us, the people like John Kerry. We need to be more like the Europeans, you know, they're fair, they've modified socialism, they're certainly less barbaric. Did you know...? This is Liz Peek in the Fiscal Times. "Among developed nations, only the US and Canada still offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice."

Did you know that? In other words, let's say that you live in Morocco, and you want to go to London. You go to London, you're a woman and you get pregnant, you give birth, your kid is not a citizen of the UK. The United States and Canada still are the only countries, developed nations, that offer automatic citizenship to children born on their soil. Not a single European country follows the practice.

Look, referring to what's happening to this country as an invasion, if invasion makes you nervous, colonization, try that word. And I'm being specific in terms of the definition of words. This is not immigration. These people are not immigrating. They're migrating, maybe, and the left loves to use that word, call them migrants. That makes them sound like they pick lettuce. That makes them sound like they're Cesar Chavez or what have you. But it isn't immigration. Immigration has a set of laws which lay out steps and procedures that noncitizens must follow in order to become citizens. None of that is happening here.


And it's not just here. You know Europe -- speaking of Europe -- they are so obsessed and have been for so long with political correctness, they may as well have erased their borders. This is not a criticism; this is simply a statement of fact.


The most popular name for newborn baby boys in Britain, what is it, Snerdley? (interruption) Mohammed is right. Mohammed. "What's wrong with that, Mr. Limbaugh?" Nothing. Nothing. Don't jump off your horses out there. I'm just telling you. What does it tell you that's happened?
And I'll tell you, I was wrong about something. I said earlier this week when I first introduced this whole concept of colonization or invasion that many of the people coming are escaping poverty, war, other forms of stress and duress in their own countries, and I've been told that's not the case in a majority of these instances, and particularly with what's happening in Europe. It's just that people think there's a better place to live than where they were born and where they live, so they're going there.


And Europe, you know, I mean these are the people that think they're the smartest and the brightest, the most sophisticated. They're not discriminating. They're not judgmental, none of this, and if somebody wants to come in their country, fine and dandy, and now they're being overwhelmed.


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IT NOT ONLY MEXICAN IT ALSO ALL OF THE OTHER COUNTRY AS WELL .LOOK AROUND
THE GIRL HAS GET PREGNANT IN HER COUNTRY & COME OVER TO OUR COUNTRY . HAS HER BABY& HAS HER BABY & SAID HE OR SHE IS A CITIZEN . NO WAY THEY ARE ALL FROM OTHER COUNTRY . . THIS HAS TO STOP . & WHO PAY FOR THIS WE DO THEYWANT EVERY THING FREE
WELL THIS HAS TO STOP .IF OBAMA CAN CHANGE WHY CAN TRUMP . OBAMA
IS NOT LOOKING OUT FOR THE USA AT ALL

The AMOUNT of births for each female and I mean 17-18yr olds having 3 children already is an enormous expense on American citizens. I see it everyday. They have many more reproductive years also.