Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., took NBC Information to job for “selectively omitting” a key a part of the 14th Modification in a query about birthright citizenship throughout an interview with President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday.
Trump was requested about quite a lot of modifications he intends to implement as soon as he assumes workplace throughout a sit down launched on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” together with his plan to finish birthright citizenship. Below the 14th Modification, somebody born within the U.S. is granted citizenship no matter whether or not their dad and mom are residents. Trump confirmed that he intends to finish the coverage “on Day One,” calling it “ridiculous.”
NBC host Kristen Welker pushed again, arguing that the 14th Modification “states all persons in the United States are citizens. Can you get around the 14th Amendment with executive action?” she requested.
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Donald Trump stated he deliberate to finish birthright citizenship on Day One in an interview on ‘Meet the Press.’ (Screenshot/NBC)
Trump stated he was open to utilizing government motion, reiterating that the U.S. is “the only country has it” and “we have to end it.”
Lee shared a clip of the alternate on X later Sunday, rebuking the NBC host for omitting six crucial phrases from the 14th Modification in her query to Trump.
“All persons born … in the United States, *and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,* shall be citizens of the United States,” Lee wrote on X, highlighting the lacking phrases in asterisks.
“Those words matter,” he added.
The senator continued to interrupt down the problem in a prolonged 12-part thread.
“Congress has the facility to outline what it means to be born in the USA ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,'” he wrote.
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” While current law contains no such restriction, Congress could pass a law defining what it means to be born in the United States ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’ excluding prospectively from birthright citizenship people born within the U.S. to unlawful aliens.
“Those that counsel Congress is by some means powerless to restrict birthright citizenship ignore vital constitutional textual content giving Congress energy outline who amongst these ‘born in the United States’ is born topic to the jurisdiction thereof.’
“It bothers me that@MeetThePress, long revered as America’s leading Sunday political news program, has become so one-sided,” he continued.
“In this instance, @MeetThePress seems to try to render a debatable matter beyond debate by selectively omitting key words from the Constitution, making it appear incorrectly that the Fourteenth Amendment proscribes any and all restrictions on birthright citizenship.”
NBC didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital when requested whether or not the omission was intentional.
Trump addressed quite a lot of different subjects throughout the wide-ranging interview, together with his plan to revive the nation’s fame globally, his ideas on FBI Director Christopher Wray, and how he plans to unify a fractured nation in his inaugural deal with.
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“It’s going to be a message of unity, and I think success brings unity. And I’ve experienced that. I’ve experienced it in my first term, as I’ve said. We’re going to be talking about unity, and we’re going to be talking about success. Making our country safe. Keeping people that shouldn’t be in our country out, we have to do that. I know it doesn’t sound nice, but we have to do that. Basically, it’s going to be about bringing our country together,” Trump stated.
