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SD public defense duties shift from counties to state; SCOTUS appears skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies; Trump lawyers say he can't make bond; new scholarships aim to connect class of 2024 to high-demand jobs.

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The SCOTUS weighs government influence on social media, and who groups like the NRA can do business with. Biden signs an executive order to advance women's health research and the White House tells Israel it's responsible for the Gaza humanitarian crisis.

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Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken production, Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and California's extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it's time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains.

ACLU-NM Monitors Trump Threat to Revoke Birthright Citizenship

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Friday, November 2, 2018   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Legal experts say President Donald Trump's threat this week to revoke birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to non-citizens would immediately be challenged in court, but even the threat has caused outrage.

The president said he had the authority to single-handedly issue an executive order to end the practice. At a campaign rally this week, the president said granting citizenship to immigrant children born on U.S. soil is a "crazy policy."

But ACLU of New Mexico Communications Director Micah McCoy says the president cannot end this protection with the stroke of a pen.

"It's just hard to imagine a situation in which an executive order would be able to supersede the United States Constitution in a matter this clear," says McCoy.

Trump attacked House Speaker Paul Ryan on Twitter for disagreeing with him, after Ryan told reporters the 14th Amendment is clear and doesn't allow ending birthright citizenship with an executive order. The president said Ryan "knows nothing" about the issue, and suggested his time would be better spent making sure Republicans win on November 6th.

McCoy says the president has used a migrant caravan making its way through Central America to sow further division a week before midterms, during a very contentious political season.

"It has the effect of pouring fuel on the already dangerously volatile political situation we have, where real hate and rancor is being stoked-up for political convenience against certain groups like immigrants," says McCoy.

The latest estimates from the Pew Research Center indicate the number of babies born to non-citizens nationwide declined from 330,000 in 2009 to 275,000 in 2014.


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