They're Coming for Birthright Citizenship

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🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

President Trump claims he can end birthright citizenship with an executive order. Jess and Imani explain why that's simply not true—but how this move might be part of a scarier and potentially effective long-term strategy.

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0:20.2	I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo.
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0:53.6	combe. Okay, so, Amani, I woke up this morning
0:58.0	to my phone basically exploding with news that Trump is going to use an executive order to end
1:05.4	birthright citizenship. And so basically, I don't know, unilaterally rewrite the 14th Amendment
1:10.0	on a whim. What the hell is happening? I don't know, unilaterally rewrite the 14th Amendment on a whim.
1:12.9	What the hell is happening?
1:17.3	I don't know, but I'm just going to say this to all of you listeners out there.
1:22.4	If you happen to wake up in the middle of the night to go use the bathroom, whatever you do,
1:28.9	do not check Twitter, quote unquote, real quick before you try to fall back to sleep because that's what I did.
1:35.7	I woke up to pee at 430, checked Twitter, and then never went back to sleep. So my God, I, I,
1:40.2	it's stunning. It seems like every day there's something new, but this is really important.
1:49.3	I mean, the notion that Trump is going to try to rewrite the 14th Amendment via an executive order is preposterous.
2:02.1	It's completely preposterous. And so we're going to break it all down for you. This episode, we're going to talk about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship, just what that is, what Trump can and can't do to revoke it, and how this latest idea fits into conservatives' efforts overall to try and redefine just who people are under the law.
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