Thursday, August 27, 2015

Can the 14th amendment be changed by a billionair named TRUMP?

as far as i can tell the 14th amendment can only be changed by an act of congress or an amendment made to the constitution by the supreme court of the united states. so the Trump man does have his work cut out for him if he plans on overturning such a long standing amendment. see Donald Trump has been giving some riveting speeches lately about how he wants to remove the so called "anchor babies" from the united states and send them back to where there illegal parents originated from.

 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."

so language like that is pretty clear for most to understand , you born here you live and vote here as a citizen no questions asked!.....but that whole  "to the jurisdiction thereof" is a very tricky part that the so called legal "smart" people trump says he has are mulling over . just to give you an example, if a foreign diplomat is here in the united states and happens to have a baby  is the baby American or a citizen of the diplomats country? they are in fact not American because they are  "subject to the jurisdiction thereof " which to the best of my non expert opinion means another country does have dominion over the diplomats baby thus it is a citizen of that country not the US. so Trumps people are arguing that perhaps they can use this loop hole to kick out all of the illegal immigrants in the united states.


another thing that alot of people take for granted about citizenship is that it is not directly guaranteed by constitution but rather by a statute , so thats why our somoa friends have no citizenship, seriously it sucks for em come financial aid time. 
i cant really come to a conclusion on how i feel about trumps proposal to change the 14th amendment but i am glad i learned that YES it is possible to change the amendment. its going to take alot of work alot of votes and i seriously doubt it will happen or that federal agents will kick doors down and drag entire families over the border. cant believe i learned this , glad you learned it with me.

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