There must be a stronger word than hypocrisy to describe the media/Democrat reaction to President Donald Trump’s legitimate and commonsense interpretation of the 14th Amendment and “birthright citizenship.” Section 1 reads: “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 rejects the widely accepted interpretation that the 14th Amendment grants immediate citizenship to any child born on American soil, even if the child’s parents are in the country illegally. Trump believes the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, was designed to confer citizenship on newly freed slaves. (RELATED: DAVID BLACKMON: Holding No Levers Of Power, Democrats Focus On Lawfare To Slow Trump Agenda)
In fact, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, who introduced the amendment, said,…
