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Ron DeSantis: “Congress probably could address [birthright citizenship…”

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Published | Video Starts at 31:05

I think the argument's actually going on right now. We'll get a little bit of tea leaves after that, and we'll just hope. But that's something Congress probably could address [birthright citizenship issues], because they have the enforcement power for 14th amendment. They could probably legislate within that to avoid the things that we're talking about. And they've never even really tried to do that. And so that's been very, very disappointing. (31:05–31:13)

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Asserts that Congress has the power to address birthright citizenship issues under the 14th Amendment.

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