What Does The Constitution Say?

The Life and Liberty Minute

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60 second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

08/22/19

What Does The Constitution Say?

Transcript:

Bryan Fischer here with the Life and Liberty Minute. President Trump wants to get rid of birthright citizenship, which is only practiced by two countries in the entire civilized world. What does the constitution say? The 14th Amendment says the only people who are citizens of the United States at birth are those who are not, at the time they are born, subject to foreign jurisdiction. That’s why the children of diplomats are not citizens is they are born here. Because their parents are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, neither are they. But this is true of every child born on our soil to an illegal alien. The parents are subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country, which means their children are too. In simple terms, the child of an illegal is not a citizen by birth of the United States, any more than being born in a barn makes you a horse. [The president is right.]