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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