Yesterday President Trump announced his plan to end birthright citizenship which allows babies born to illegal immigrants on American soil to become instant US citizens. The left naturally flipped their wigs over this because…racism or whatever. Some astute Internet sleuth found a video of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid fully supporting an end to anchor babies and the retired Nevada Senator quickly explained how he “evolved” on the issue. Because, even in retirement, Reid is still a democrat, his explanation is a complete lie.
Let’s start here. This is from a speech in 1993 when Reid actually introduced a bill to end birthright citizenship.
“If making it easy to be an illegal alien isn’t enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship and guarantee a full access to all public and social services this society provides. And that’s a lot of services. Is it any wonder that two-thirds of the babies born at taxpayer expense at country-run hospitals in Los Angeles are born to illegal alien mothers?” Reid said.
Not only was he against birthright citizenship, he used the forbidden term “illegal aliens.” Everything he said in 1993 would get a Republican labeled a racist in 2018.
When this video started popping up yesterday, President Trump seized on it:
So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Many legal scholars agree…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
….Harry Reid was right in 1993, before he and the Democrats went insane and started with the Open Borders (which brings massive Crime) “stuff.” Don’t forget the nasty term Anchor Babies. I will keep our Country safe. This case will be settled by the United States Supreme Court!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
I don’t know, I’ve felt democrats have always been insane. They may seem a little crazier now, but they’ve never been particularly mentally healthy. In any case, Reid attempted to hit back with this statement:
“In 1993, around the time Donald Trump was gobbling up tax-free inheritance money from his wealthy father and driving several companies into bankruptcy, I made a mistake. After I proposed that awful bill, my wife Landra immediately sat me down down and said, “Harry, what are you doing, don’t you know that my father is an immigrant?’ She set me straight. And in my 36 years in Washington there is no more valuable lesson I learned than the strength and power of immigrants and no issue I worked harder on than fixing our broken immigration system,” wrote Reid.
He’s basically calling his bill to end birthright citizenship the biggest mistake of his life. Really? What about that time he popped his eye out with a rubber band and rendered himself impotent? Or maybe that time he invoked the the nuclear option eliminating the filibuster, which is why conservatives Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh are sitting on the Supreme Court. That sounds like a lie, but there’s actually a much bigger load in Reid’s statement.
He says that “immediately” after he introduced the bill to end birthright citizenship his wife sat him down and set him straight. He introduced that bill in 1993, but one year later in 1994 Reid was still supporting the legislation. Here’s an op/ed he wrote for the LA Times:
The federal government has been grossly irresponsible in its neglect of mounting immigration problems, even as these problems place unbearable burdens on states like California.
Taxpayers simply cannot continue to sustain new populations the size of San Diego or the state of Nevada every year…Unprecedented demands are being placed on job markets, schools, hospitals, police, social safety nets, infrastructure and natural resources. Unlimited new arrivals pressuring these systems threaten to overwhelm them.
Our doors should remain open, but only wide enough to admit those to whom we can realistically offer opportunity and security. To leave the door unguarded is to create an environment in which no one can live securely and peacefully. And so I am sponsoring a bill in the Senate to reduce immigration-legal and illegal.
The truth is Reid didn’t evolve on this issue until 1999, when he suddenly became pro-illegal immigration. When he says he immediately regretted introducing that bill which he calls “awful” what he really meant was 6 years later.
After all of that, Surprise! Harry Reid is full of shit. I know you probably thought I was going somewhere else with this, but that’s it. Reid is democrat so he’s not only a hyscprite but also a liar.
