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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Marco Rubio Rejects Birthright Citizenship Repeal

Wall Street Journal
By Rebecca Ballhaus
August 18, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Tuesday said he is “not in favor” of repealing birthright citizenship and criticized GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s immigration plan, drawing a distinction with at least two of his rivals who have said in recent days that they favor denying U.S. citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.

Speaking at the Iowa State Fair in response to a reporter’s question, Mr. Rubio said, “I’m open to doing things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for purposes of taking advantage of the 14th Amendment, but I’m not in favor of repealing it.”

Accompanied by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, Mr. Rubio said the bulk of Mr. Trump’s illegal immigration platform—which was released Sunday and included a proposal to end automatic citizenship for children born to foreigners on U.S. soil—is “not a workable plan” that would pass muster in Congress, though he said some parts “have merit.”

Mr. Trump’s immigration platform also included a plan to deport millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. Mr. Rubio criticized that approach. “There’s not really a realistic way of rounding up and deporting 12 or 13 million people,” he said. “We wouldn’t want to do that anyway.”

Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin, appeared to support ending birthright citizenship while responding to a reporter question at the Iowa State Fair on Monday. Asked whether he thought it should be ended, he responded: “Yeah, to me it’s about enforcing the laws in this country. And I’ve been very clear, I think you enforce the laws, and I think it’s important to send a message that we’re going to enforce the laws, no matter how people come here we’re going to enforce the laws in this country.”

A spokeswoman for Mr. Walker issued a statement to MSNBC later Monday clarifying his position. “We have to enforce the laws, keep people from coming here, enforce E-Verify to stop the jobs magnet, and by addressing the root problems we will end the birthright citizenship problem,” the statement read.

Presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday, tweeted, “We need to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.”


Mr. Rubio was the 13th presidential candidate week to speak at the Iowa State Fair. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is also scheduled to appear on Tuesday.

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