The mayhem and nightmare continues in the week before the election. In an interview with Axios, Trump announced plans to terminate the right to citizenship for babies born on US soil to non-citizens, using an Executive Order.
After all the mayhem created in the past few weeks — massive troop deployment on the border to “protect the country” against hordes of poor children and mothers, the vilification of the press, the goading of right-wing nuts to kill Democrats and Jews — now they want to take away rights guaranteed by the constitution, with the stroke of a pen.
Presumably, the law change (if and when it goes into effect) will not be grandfathered.
It seems to be part of some grand scheme to marginalize and reduce the number of non-white people in America. Does Trump come up with these destructive ideas on his own or are there other people and organizations in the shadows who call the shots in this nativist and white nationalistic movement?
The 14th amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Trump lied as usual when he stated that the United States is the only country that offers birthright citizenship; there are at least 30 others.
Some background on the issue -
Perhaps, this is just a stunt, designed to detract from news of the attempted bombings and murders in the past few days. Perhaps they pulled this out of the war chest because they are behind in the polls. Perhaps this is part of the planned last-week blitzkrieg. In any case, let’s focus on November 6 and the few days left until then; that’s the only way to end this nightmare.