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    Biden sagt, es sei schrecklich, dass Trump das Geburtsrecht der USA auf die Staatsbürgerschaft abschaffen wolle


    Biden sagt, es sei schrecklich, dass Trump das Geburtsrecht der USA auf die Staatsbürgerschaft abschaffen wolle

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-it-is-awful-that-trump-is-seeking-do-away-with-us-birthright-2025-01-05/

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    2. DomesticErrorist22 on

      From the article:

      > U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he thought it was awful that President-elect Donald Trump was trying to do away with birthright citizenship in the United States.

      > Speaking to reporters at the White House, Biden said the transition to Trump’s government seemed to be going smoothly, though he said he thought there was a problem with Trump’s team internally related to the handover.

      > Asked ahead of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol whether he still thought Trump was a threat to democracy, Biden said he thought what Trump did was a “genuine threat to democracy.”

      > Trump falsely claimed he had won the 2020 election and urged his supporters to go to the Capitol that day.
      “It should not be rewritten,” Biden said about Jan. 6. “I don’t think it should be forgotten.” Biden said white supremacy was one of many threats to the United States.

      > **”We are the most extensive multicultural nation in the world. It’s the reason why we’re so strong. It’s the reason why we’re who we are,”** Biden said.

      > Trump told NBC last month he plans to take executive action on his first day in office to try to end birthright citizenship, which confers citizenship on anyone born in the U.S. regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

      > **”The idea we’re going to change a constitutional birthright – if you’re born in the country … you’re not a citizen? What’s going on?”** Biden said.

    3. YetiSquish on

      I don’t think the writers of the Constitution intended for it to be used as a way for people to trek or float here or overstay a travel visa as a way to get a baby born in the US for citizenship.

      Honestly it is being abused and I’m not sure what the solution is. But if Trump was actually serious about illegal immigration (he isn’t), he’d go after companies that hire them (he won’t).

    4. Lostsailor73 on

      Well, unfortunately the United States of America voted for awful. We’re going to be getting a heavy dose of awful until the house is flipped in 2 years. I just hope we can hold on long enough for people to see what they have done.

    5. Traditional_Key_763 on

      have the fucking AG write down his current opinion on this so the next one has to at least do the fucking paperwork

    6. cjwidd on

      Supposedly Trump cabinet members really want to get started with this Day 1 as a kind of spectacle, shock and awe campaign. Even if the result is a raft of millions of cases that aren’t heard until 2026, 2028, it would be a major political victory for the Trump administration.

    7. tosser1579 on

      Remember, if Trump can get rid of that constitutional amendment by EO, he can get rid of the 1st or 2nd.

    8. JeromeCable092 on

      If the West wants to consider itself the pinnacle of modern moral theory and an exemplar of its action, it must support and protect children without exception. If it is this paragon to look up to, the US must unconditionally support birthright citizenship as being a citizen of the US should be the best way to ensure this protection; if the systemic structures of the US are as good as it’s government imply they are. Obviously not the case in practice, but eliminating the good graces we provide to innocents is objectively not the correct way to fix any issues present in current legislature.

    9. ExcellentJuice4729 on

      The whole next 4 years I want to be hearing/reading “trump did ____, but it’s the will of the people”

      Dumbasses couldn’t be bothered to vote, and this is what we get

    12. EvasiveCookies on

      Trump should be the first person to take a citizenship test then. As an American citizen I know I couldn’t pass that test. I know I couldn’t because I helped a coworker study for the test and even I was learning things.

    13. Historical-Let-6563 on

      if he does away with birthright citizenship, would that mean everyone born in this country would then lose their citizenship ? If so, then Trump would not be a citizen and not be able to be president because he not a citizen.

    14. Whydoesthisexist15 on

      Biden hitting us with the “damn bro, that’s crazy.”

      I despise this fucker

    16. Mrmathmonkey on

      If you’re not a citizen by birth, then what makes Donald Trump a citizen??

    17. mrschwee69 on

      It is literally part of our constitution and would take a super majority to change it. Zero chance of happening, it is part of the grand distraction as they loot the government.

    19. bobwhite1146 on

      The United States declared birthright citizenship for USA-born individuals in 1868, as part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which was created in the wake of the Civil War. In addition to granting citizenship to all former slaves in the United States, the 14th Amendment officially established that any child born on U.S. soil (meaning any U.S. state or territory) was automatically a citizen of the United States.

      This provision was added to the post-slavery era 14th Amendment to make sure all former slaves (and there subsequent offspring) were citizens without question. I do not believe the drafters intended to create a worldwide dragnet clause.

      While some other nations have birthright citizenship, or a highly restricted version, many more nations do not have birthright citizenship.

      In any event, regardless of your position on this issue, I think it would require a subsequent Constitutional amendment to change in a significant way birthright citizenship in the United States, for obvious reasons. However. right-sizing the interpretation of the amendment to match its intent may well be possible.

    20. MidnightShampoo on

      Yea America is an awful country full of awful people. This is the result of that. Who has time for virtue when eggs cost *so* much!

    22. rayliam on

      Trump & Co. won’t have the majority to change the 14th Amendment or make a new amendment to abolish/modify it. They’ll talk tough and at the same time, pilfer and destroy the government to line their greasy pockets with tax-payer dollars. Fucking thieves, the whole lot of them.

    23. ProwlingChicken on

      Whatever, Trump can’t get a constitutional amendment passed. Like everything else, he is just spouting off ignorantly about things he doesn’t like or understand.

      And if Biden thinks this is a bad idea, maybe he shouldn’t have clung to power so arrogantly, and allowed us a real primary to pick a real candidate. Then maybe we would be here dealing with this.

    25. Hms34 on

      In all seriousness, who will track and enforce birthright citizenship? Where will the violaters go? What about the billionaires who depend on cheap immigrant labor, even if only for their investments?

      The GOP couldn’t build much of a wall, never mind make Mexico pay for it. They couldn’t bear to wear masks at the peak of the pandemic. Can they walk and chew gum at the same time in this administration?

      Both parties have been inept about certain things, but a lot of what Trump is seeking is much easier said than done. Or, is getting everyone worked up into a tizzy the name of the game…..run interference while they rob the house?

    27. Previous_Park_1009 on

      To Trump it’s a cold civil war. Hospice will spank his thighs daily.

    28. spideygene on

      It’s downright pathetic that enough Americans voted for exactly this, and our current administration acts like a whipped dog around Trump when they should have insisted Garland did his fucking job.

      Nothing is happening that wasn’t welcomed in the front door with open arms.

    29. Ornery-Ticket834 on

      It’s awful that the law has been pretty clear since the 1860’s. Apparently not to Trump.

    31. everything_is_bad on

      Man if only the preceding president made their presidency about stoping the rise of fascism in America and putting down the insurrection against decency that is Trump…

    33. ceelogreenicanth on

      It would take the Supreme Court wiping it’s collective ass with the constitution, but they think it’s just words and meanings are malleable given newspeak, so I guess yeah.

    34. purplebrown_updown on

      Maybe you shouldn’t have hidden the fact that you were too old until late summer and then brought chaos into the dem party. Another RBG disaster.

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