(CNSNews) - Birthright citizenship has "constitutional underpinnings," but that doesn't mean Congress can't pass a law to end it, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told CNN on Monday.
He was commenting on Donald Trump's recently released policy paper that says babies born to illegal immigrants should not automatically become U.S. citizens just because they were born in the United States.
"With regard to birthright citizenship, for example, it is -- it has constitutional underpinnings, yes," King said. "But the way you start that is as you pass the legislation that puts an end to birthright citizenship. I happen to be the author of that legislation. And then, it will be litigated, there isn't any doubt about it."
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Both parenta need to be citizens.
The original amendment was intended to give citizenship to former slaves, and the part about being born here, was to specify that children of slaves who were born here, would also have legal citizenship.
Many people, including Abraham Lincoln, wanted to ship them all back to Africa. By granting them American citizenship, they could not be involuntarily deported back to Africa, especially ones that were born here. The white people who drafted this amendment felt it was cruel to force them to go back to such an uncivilized, brutal place, so they gave them the right to stay here if they wanted to. Most preferred to stay here, despite discrimination, because being "poor" in America was much better than being "wealthy" in Africa.
They had much more to fear in Africa, than here, such as being re-enslaved, and there was more opportunity for a hard working person of any color here. The oppression they faced in the few decades after slavery ended, was far better than being "free" in Aftica...where they could be re-enslaved, and in far worse conditions.
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