Hillary Clinton’s campaign called out both Walker and Trump for their positions of support for extreme
anti-immigrant policies.
Hillary for America Latino Outreach Director Lorella
Praeli said in a statement, “It is disturbing that Republican
pretender candidates continue to embrace extreme anti-immigrant
positions as core pieces of their immigration platform. While more
Republicans are promoting policies that tear families apart, Hillary
Clinton remains consistent in her position to defend President Obama’s
executive actions and push for a comprehensive solution that includes a
pathway to full and equal citizenship at the heart of any immigration
reform plan.”
Trump’s immigration plan that in part gained
the support of Walker is the exact opposite of a comprehensive
solution. Trump’s plan was more pie in the sky race baiting that was
designed to appeal to bigoted Republican primary voters.
What Walker, Trump, and the Republicans who support
this scheme are ignoring is that any legislation to end birthright
citizenship would be unconstitutional. The Fourteenth 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.”
The Fourteenth Amendment would have to be repealed
for the Republican wet dream of ending birthright citizenship to become law.
Republicans are costing themselves the 2016 election by supporting
Trump’s overt racism. Every Republican that praises Trump’s plan is
another nail in the Republican 2016 coffin.
Democrats
have all been consistent in their support for immigration reform. If
Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee, she has already pledged to
continue, support, and defend the president’s executive orders on
immigration. The odds of the next president getting to sign a
comprehensive immigration reform bill remain slim, but the racist stance
of immigrant hating Republican candidates has made it clear that the
best chance for comprehensive immigration reform rests with electing a
Democratic president in 2016.
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