And I really think as I listen to some of the Republicans talk about what they think is important about anchor babies this, anchor babies that, offensive term or not, misses the whole point. It's so small an item compared to what it actually is about. And I'll tell you something else. Even after yesterday's program, the number of people who cannot get it through their heads that the 14th Amendment does not establish citizenship by virtue of birth to an illegal citizen or person in the country. It's not there.
And even after telling people, even after exposing it, some people just refuse to learn it. You know, Trump's out saying that the 14th Amendment has nothing to say about anchor babies, and there are people still arguing with him about it. It's not even a Supreme Court decision. Folks, it's not in the Constitution that a baby born to somebody here illegally is automatically an American citizen.
You know how it happened to become accepted? I forget the case, and I can't quote for you the year. Justice William Brennan of the United States Supreme Court wrote, I don't know what, footnote or a little addendum to a full-fledged Supreme Court opinion in which he just proffered his opinion that is the case and it has been glommed onto. And for that reason it's assumed that the Supreme Court's spoken about this, but they haven't.
The Supreme Court has not said a word about what's being called anchor babies. The Constitution says one thing about this, and what it says is that Congress shall determine the definition of citizenship, that Congress shall determine the technique, the mechanism by which one becomes naturalized. The 14th Amendment doesn't speak to it. And yet even though that's been out there now easy to learn for the past couple days, we still have people refusing to learn it and still mouth it. And the reason they do is because they're pandering. They think most of America thinks it. So rather than argue with most of America, rather than teach most of America, just pander to 'em and just repeat what they think.
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