FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen finally agree on one thing in their fractious contest to become Tennessee’s next U.S. senator on Nov. 6.
Both candidates say they don’t think President Donald Trump’s plan to use an executive order to ban birthright citizenship is constitutional.
“I don’t think so,” U.S. Rep. Blackburn told reporters Wednesday after she cast her early vote in Franklin in Tuesday’s election. “I think the 14th Amendment is where it stands.”
“But,” Blackburn quickly added, “the issue of birthright tourism is something that indeed Congress has talked about looking at for a while.”
That’s a reference to a practice involving travel to another country for the specific purpose of giving birth in that country and achieving citizenship.