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Mary Gay Scanlon: “If you're looking for prominent Americans who've benefited…”

Featuring: Mary Gay Scanlon, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, 5th Congressional District

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LIVE: Birthright Citizenship And Fourteenth Amendment Debated In House Judiciary Committee

Published | Video Starts at 33:53

… Kazar, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, Congressman Andy Harris and for the region, I represent one of the greatest Eagles players of all time, Chuck Concrete Charlie Bednarik If you're looking for prominent Americans who've benefited from birthright citizenship, you can look no further than senior officials in the Trump administration like Marco Rubio or Nikki Haley who were born to non citizens and received their U.S. citizenship at birth. Defending birthright citizenship is a moral as well as a constitutional imperative. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote in its Trump versus Barbara America I'm Sorry Amicus brief that ending birthright citizenship denies the innate dignity and freedom of the person. (33:53–34:10)

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Asserts that Marco Rubio and Nikki Haley, born to non-citizens, benefited from birthright citizenship.

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