South Carolina joins 18 other states in supporting Trump’s birthright citizenship fight

As the Supreme Court gathers arguments against President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, South Carolina has picked a side.

Attorney General Alan Wilson of South Carolina believes that the 14th Amendment, which establishes that anyone born in the United States is automatically considered a citizen, has been “misinterpreted over the last 160 years.” He states that this misinterpretation has resulted in people from around the world being able to take advantage of our country.

“That amendment was rightfully designed to bestow citizenship on emancipated slaves, which needed to happen, but it has been misinterpreted over the last 160 years to incentivize the ridiculous notion that somebody can come to the United States in the dead of night, drop a child like an anchor, like a boat drops an anchor, and all of a sudden, they have been bestowed citizenship for henceforth evermore,” he argued.

“That was not the intention of the framers of the 14th Amendment,” the attorney general added.

The wording of the amendment reads:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

Wilson is confident that the Supreme Court will see things his way, as South Carolina joins 18 other states in supporting Trump’s executive order. Meanwhile, 22 states are suing to block the order.

Writer/Columnist

Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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