citizenship

Tennessee has enacted a new law (HB 2315) that will require all state law enforcement agencies to enforce Federal immigration law. What are the details, and how will it affect our local communities?

Candidate Trump’s website contains the following promise if he is elected: End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration.  By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.  By “birthright citizenship,” Trump is referring to the fact that people born in the United States automatically become U.S. citizens.  Candidate Trump is vowing to stop this practice.  Could President Trump actually do it? Question:  Could President Trump end “birthright citizenship”?  Answer:  No.  It’s in the Constitution. “Birthright citizenship” is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which states that “[a]ll 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.”  This principle is known as “jus soli,” meaning literally “law of the […]