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Adriano Espaillat: “No president has the power to decide who an American is.”

Featuring: Adriano Espaillat, Democratic | U.S. House New York, 13th Congressional District

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House Democrats on Birthright Citizenship Ruling

Published | Video Starts at 04:49

We're right and he's wrong. Birthright citizenship is protected it's Shield by the 14th Amendment and by this sacred document called the Constitution. No president has the power, No president has the power to decide who an American is. The Constitution states it and it does it in a very transparent, clear way. As MAGA extremists push a dangerous and divisive vision rooted in fear and exclusion, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus stands united to defend our Constitution, everybody's Constitution. (04:49–04:55)

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Asserts that the president does not have the authority to determine American citizenship.

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