The Supreme Court has never actually ruled on whether the children of illegal immigrants born here are citizens or not. Amy Swearer, a legal analyst at The Heritage Foundation, joins us on the podcast to share that fact and more about the history of birthright citizenship in the US, and whether it’s appropriate for President Trump to use an executive order to declare that children of illegal immigrants born here aren’t citizens. Plus: We talk about the best Halloween movies.

We also cover these stories:

–President Trump is looking to sign an executive order that would get rid of birthright citizenship.
–House Speaker Paul Ryan says, “You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.”
–Whitey Bulger, the notorious Boston mobster, was pronounced dead Tuesday at a federal prison in West Virginia, one day after being transferred there.

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  1. Joe D. Inactive
    Joe D.
    @JosephDornisch

    I’m fairly pro-Trump, and generally conservative on most political issues, and I don’t support ending birth right citizenship.

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  2. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
    @Taras

     After listening to the Heritage expert, I find that Trump has a better Constitutional case than I thought, especially where illegal aliens are concerned. 

     Of course, no matter how good the legal case is, when it hits the Supreme Court, the four Democrat Justices will vote the interests of the Democratic Party as they always do, and one or two of the Republican Justices will join with them to uphold the status quo.

     Another approach might be to ban dual citizenship.  This might discourage some “birth tourism”. 

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