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The Trump Trap

Ruben Navarrett Jr. on

SAN DIEGO -- Some people believe that Donald Trump is a Democratic mole who is in the Republican presidential race to scare away voters from the GOP and torpedo otherwise-promising Republican contenders by getting them to co-sign crazy.

Those who believe that Trump is a Democrat in Republicans' clothing will wince at the question that NBC News' Kasie Hunt put to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker this week at the Iowa State Fair:

"Do you think birthright citizenship should be ended?"

Trump does. Supposedly. Although since the real-estate tycoon is a master manipulator who has over the years changed position on a variety of issues, no one can be sure what Trump believes about anything.

The candidate's nearly 1,900-word policy paper on immigration suggests hitting "delete" on the 14th Amendment to ensure that the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants are no longer granted citizenship at birth.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter -- who pollutes the immigration debate with her ridiculous rants -- tweeted approvingly:

 

"I don't care if @realDonaldTrump wants to perform abortions in White House after this immigration policy paper."

Stay classy, Ann.

Anyone who passed eighth-grade civics will know that changing the Constitution is nearly impossible because it involves getting the support of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states. Anyone who has followed the immigration debate will note the irony that many of those who consider U.S. citizenship sacred when denying it to the undocumented suddenly consider it less sacred when stripping it away from their offspring. And any lawyer who was not absent the day they taught law in law school will tell you that, if you want to pick a fight with the judicial branch, this is the wrong battle. The courts have defended birthright citizenship without fail.

Besides, conservatives always talk about how they want to protect the Constitution. So now we have to destroy the founding document in order to save it?

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