Juno News - October 30, 2018


Trump ends Birthright Citizenship


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Length

3 minutes

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169.60236

Word count

536

Sentence count

28

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Hate speech

6

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Trump has called for an end to birthright citizenship and the idea that just because you are born in a country, you are a citizen of that country. Why should someone born in another country be a citizen just because they were born there?

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00:00:00.000 Few things are more sacred in a country than the integrity of its citizenship and
00:00:04.500 immigration process because if you lose control of those you lose control of a
00:00:08.760 great many other things. Well American President Donald Trump is taking aim in
00:00:13.140 an interview he did with Axios at birthright citizenship. The idea that just
00:00:17.640 because you are born in a country means you are a citizen of that country. Now
00:00:22.960 President Trump has said that he is going to pursue an executive order rather
00:00:27.120 than a constitutional amendment which some people have said is required or
00:00:30.720 even an act of Congress which most people would assume on a major policy item is
00:00:35.400 in fact required. He says that he's run it by a council and he is convinced that he
00:00:40.320 can actually do this by executive order. Now I'm not a fan of governing by
00:00:44.520 executive fiat except when absolutely necessary. However I do think that the
00:00:49.380 idea of putting an end to birthright citizenship is something worth at least 1.00
00:00:53.460 entertaining. Certainly not the tyrannical stroke of the pen that so
00:00:57.600 many people are accusing it of being. Quite frankly if someone walks into a
00:01:02.340 country illegally at eight and a half months pregnant and then gives birth to a
00:01:06.420 child why should that child be a citizen when they're only in that country by an 0.54
00:01:11.820 illegal act by another. There are a lot of ethical dilemmas that come up when you
00:01:16.080 start talking about deporting children however we also have a very real
00:01:20.580 phenomenon of anchor babies being used in the US to keep illegal immigrants who 0.98
00:01:25.260 are parents in the country. And now that Canada has its own problem of illegal
00:01:29.640 immigrants flooding across the border and breaking the law by doing so it stands 1.00
00:01:34.380 to reason that this is a loophole that is being exploited here as well. And for
00:01:39.780 starters this is not out of the norm for Trump to say we have to put an end to
00:01:43.800 birthright citizenship. This was a motion that was passed by Conservative Party of
00:01:47.880 Canada members for the Canadian Conservative Party to put forward as a policy. That
00:01:53.160 happened at the last CPC convention in Halifax. Quite frankly few Western developed
00:01:59.460 countries do offer birthright citizenship. Canada and the United States are rarities.
00:02:04.680 But it stands to reason that we should not be rewarding with citizenship which is in
00:02:09.560 fact a tremendously valuable asset for Canada or the US to people who are getting it not
00:02:15.880 accidentally but getting it because they broke the law. And this is where I draw a
00:02:21.760 line. We're not talking about rare cases where someone might be on vacation and a
00:02:25.780 baby comes a little bit early but we do need to address it in the situations where
00:02:30.320 people are deliberately trying to get into the country for the sole purpose of 0.96
00:02:34.380 giving birth. Why should citizenship be earned by the child in that case? For the 0.99
00:02:39.320 True North Initiative, I'm Andrew Lawton.
00:02:45.880 the group.
00:02:52.280 Thank you.
00:02:55.180 Your opinion does not do anything.
00:02:57.760 There are times that you make sure you're not interested in living with your
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00:03:02.140 Thank you.
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00:03:08.760 Oh my god.