California Rep. Maxine Waters (D) Proposed On Saturday, a rally said that first lady Melania Trump was illegally in the country at an anti-Trump rally in Los Angeles.
The failed attempt by the 86-year-old Democrat at the moment of microphone drop appears to have been a product of aggravation and hypocrisy, as well as a serious misconception of important facts.
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for illegal foreign children. Trump noted that “the privilege of US citizenship does not automatically extend to those born in the United States.”
Multiple federal judges
It's blocked The order, and several courts of appeals, refused to overturn these injunctions. The issue will soon be resolved by the US Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, foreign and domestic leftists have complained about the clear possibility that illegal alien anchor babies are not always awarded citizenship.
During the weekend protest, Waters brooched the issue,
It is reportedly“when [Trump] Speaking about birthrights, he is trying to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those born here. Even if their parents are not documented, they have the right to stay in America. ”
“If he wants to find people born here and find people whose parents are not documented, he should probably see Melania first,” Waters added. “We don't know if her parents are recorded or not, and maybe we'd just look.”
“The 14th amendment does not say that everyone born in the United States is a citizen.”
Contrary to Waters' insinuation, Melania Trump was not born in the United States, and neither Mrs. Trump nor her parents illegally entered the country.
Melania Trump, formerly born in Yugoslavia.
notification AP via lawyers in 2016 that she legally came to the US from Slovenia on August 27, 1996 on a B1/B2 visitor visa. Mrs. Trump later obtained the H-1B working visa and the EB-1 “Einstein visa.”
The future first lady, who appeared on the cover of GQ in the UK in 2000, received her green card in March 2001 and became an American citizen in 2006.
Viktor and Amalija Knavs, first lady's parents,
He went on the legal path similarly To American citizenship. After living in Green Card sponsored by Mrs. Trump, the first lady Slovenian parents became citizens in 2018.
Waters argued that the constitution gives illegal foreign children the right to remain in America. The country's Supreme Court will decide whether lawmakers are wrong on this issue as well.
Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former former Justice Department attorney
It's attracting attention The claim that all born in the United States automatically have citizenship, even if their parents are here illegally “ignoring the texts and legislative history of the 14th Amendment ratified to extend citizenship to freed slaves and their children.”
“The 14th Amendment does not say that every person born in the United States is a citizen,” continued von Spakowsky. “That says that.”[a]People born or naturalized in the United States and are subject to their jurisdiction are citizens. Second, critical conditional phrases are conveniently ignored or misunderstood by advocates of “born” citizenship.
“Critics mistakenly believe that anyone in the United States will “submit” US jurisdiction to “self” and extend citizenship to tourists, diplomats and illegal alien children,” the legal companion added. “But that is not what that qualifying phrase means. Its original meaning refers to the political loyalty of an individual and the jurisdiction that foreign governments have over that individual.”
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