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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 134 - Of Course We Should End Birthright Citizenship For Illegals

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News Commentary, News

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show, Trump wants to end birthright citizenship for illegals. We'll talk about why he's 100 percent right about the birthright issue. Also, I'll explain why I think we need to stop blaming mass shootings on mental illness. Date: 10-30-2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So you can find out what subject we decided to fight about today. And well, today it was

1:03.6

birthright citizenship. President Trump said that he wants to abolish birthright citizenship

1:08.9

for illegals. That is the law that automatically makes the citizen, the children of illegal

1:14.0

immigrants, citizens, if they're born here. He wants to abolish that, the executive.

1:19.9

Remember what he's saying is that you shouldn't be able to, if you're, you know, an illegal

1:27.5

immigrant, shouldn't be able to just run across the border and then give birth. And all of

1:34.6

the sudden her child is a citizen. And then by extension, she is as well because, of course,

1:40.1

we're not supposed to be breaking up the families. So that's his point. I think it's a

1:45.4

rational one, a logical one, a lot to be said for it. But this set off the outrage machine,

1:51.7

of course, the outrage machine did what it always does, did what it does best, which is

1:56.0

be outraged. And it also prompted more reasonable responses from people who pointed out that,

2:01.2

well, you can't amend the Constitution via executive order. That's not how it works.

2:06.3

Here's what the Constitution currently says on the topic, okay? Fourteenth Amendment says

2:09.9

all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction there

2:14.1

of are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. The jurisdiction

2:19.4

thereof piece, that's the piece that, where it's kind of ambiguous and an argument can

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