Sen Moreno pushes Congress to clarify birthright citizenship rules using Harry Reid’s own 1993 legislation
Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno announced plans to revive a decades-old proposal from former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after Republicans' push to end birthright citizenship came to a screeching halt at the hands of the Supreme Court.
"When I get back from recess on July 13th, [I'm going to introduce] the identical bill," Moreno said Tuesday, mere hours after the high court's decision.
"What it's going to do is highlight two things — the Democrats of today are nothing like the Democrats of 1993 and, if they choose to reject a bill sponsored by their majority leader that they named an airport in Las Vegas after, then I think my Republican colleagues have no choice. We have to recognize that these Democrats want to systematically destroy this country."
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Moreno's remarks referenced the Immigration Stabilization Act of 1993, a proposal put forth by Reid, which would have revoked birthright citizenship, among other things.
According to PolitiFact, Section 1001 of Reid's bill, entitled "Basis of Citizenship Clarified," said that children born to illegal immigrants on U.S. soil should not become U.S. citizens.
A press release issued by the Nevada Democrat's office at the time expounded upon the idea, suggesting the bill "clarifies that a person born in the United States to an alien mother who is not a lawful resident is not a U.S. citizen."
Under this notion, PolitiFact wrote, the incentive for female illegal immigrants who are late in their pregnancies and seeking to give birth on U.S. soil would be quashed.
The bill never advanced out of committee, however.
Moreno indicated that his bill will be a carbon copy of Reid's. On Tuesday, he urged that Republicans work to "eliminate the filibuster" and "get this thing done."
"[Justice Kavanaugh] said that what we have to do is clarify what citizenship means. We can do that through an act of Congress," he said.
