Leslie

Just shuts that whole thing down.

SultanOfSwing

I had forgotten about him

sir_eccles

Birthright citizenship seems to have suddenly become a big topic this week.

Scares me a little.

Most scholars agree it would need a constitutional amendment to change the current situation, though there are one or two who say a simple bill could fix it. I don't see how it could possibly be policed or enforced. Would it be up to doctors and nurses to check the legal status of the parents before admitting them?

You could quite easily get Godwined into a slippery slope argument too. Well, you were here legally on holiday when you gave birth but..., the mother is a USC but the father only has a green card..., well the parents didn't take the naturalization oath until after the birth so...

Anian

Preventing them from accessing the hospital is not going to stop them giving birth on US soil - in fact it might make it literally the case!

zargof

There appears to be another candidate for President that no-one is talking about...

Voters back teenager Deez Nuts to be next US president - BBC Newsbeat

Steerpike

Has "The Donald" officially changed "The Hair" from gold to silver? He's suddenly sporting a silver-gray look, instead of the yellow-gold look of old. Maybe he changes it for the crowd ... gold when he is courting the ladies, silver when he's trying to appear serious on CNN ...

(I don't normally pay attention to the looks of a candidate but 'The Donald' is special!)

ETA: Just found this gem:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...it-better.html

kimilseung

Seems to be as well qualified as the other candidates.

Jerseygirl

It looked a more muted gold colour with a little grey at the sides to me. In the past he has said his wife cuts and styles his hair. I wonder how bald he is under that huge comb over.

Leslie

Riiiiiight. He's been wearing it that way since before she was born.

CelticRover

Megyn knows the truth about Donald's piece.

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/u...nald-trump.jpg

zargof

You know things are not going too well when this is your defence.

“The question shouldn’t be, do you trust Hillary Clinton,” Pfeiffer said. “It needs to be, do you trust Hillary Clinton more than Marco Rubio or Donald Trump on the economy, immigration” and more.

Hillary Clinton violated government policy over emails, says judge | US news | The Guardian

CelticRover

Yes indeed, and you also know that Jeb Bush is in trouble when he enlists the help of his persona non grata, brother George W, for help.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/20/politi...h-fundraising/

Steve_

It would definitely require a constitutional amendment, Congress has used US v. Wong Kim Ark as the guiding principle since 1898, so immigration and naturalization law is based around that. They'd have to revise all kinds of territorial laws, treaties with Indian tribes, possibly the Indian Citizenship Act:

So if jus soli didn't apply to their children there would then be a very complicated procedure to figure out whether their parents were a bona fide Indian and there have already been major problems with getting Indians birth certificates, so imagine trying to trace a blood line.

His or her birth.

This is a can of worms no-one in their right mind will want to open.

What I find rather worrying is the number of Republican candidates who agreed with this idiot.

sir_eccles

Well yes. It's interesting that everyone seems to agree Trump won't be the real nominee come crunch time. Ok fine. Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of strategists sitting around saying "Hey Trump said X and he seems to be polling well after saying it, I think our candidate should say X too". This appears to be Scott Walker's current game.

A race to the bottom ensues.

FlaviusAetius

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." — Yogi Berra