{"id":64990,"date":"2018-10-30T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/30\/trump-uses-immigration-fears-to-sow-division-ahead-of-midterms-live\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T13:55:12","slug":"trump-uses-immigration-fears-to-sow-division-ahead-of-midterms-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=64990","title":{"rendered":"Trump uses immigration fears to &#039;sow division&#039; ahead of midterms \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s attempt to end birthright citizenship \u2018unconstitutional\u2019, says ACLU lawyer. Follow the latest election news with our daily live blogSign up to the Guardian\u2019s new US morning briefing 1.55pm GMT Two Republican representatives are criticizing Trump\u2019s desire to end birthright citizenship.Costello, who represents Pennsylvania and is retiring, calls the announcement \u201cpolitical malpractice.\u201d We all know challenges of suburban R\u2019s. The bloc of competitive R held districts less impacted by POTUS thus far are those w high # of immigrants. So now POTUS, out of nowhere, brings birthright citizenship up. Besides being basic tenet of America, it\u2019s political malpractice.A president cannot amend Constitution or laws via executive order. Concept of natural-born citizen in #14thAmendment derives from natural-born subject in Britain. Phrase \u201cand subject to the jurisdiction thereof\u201d excludes mainly foreign diplomats, who are not subject to U.S. laws. 1.40pm GMT A Republican congressman has called for the Democratic midterm election campaign to be \u201cbody-slammed\u201d.In a video posted online by Georgia Democrats, Georgia\u2019s Republican congressman Jody Hice begins by telling an audience in Watkinsville that \u201cthe time has come\u201d to stop Democrats, who are favored to regain control of the House of Representatives on 6 November. Related: Republican congressman: time to &#8216;body-slam&#8217; Democrats&#8217; midterm hopes Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2018\/oct\/30\/us-midterms-2018-donald-trump-latest-live-news\" target=\"_blank\">Trump uses immigration fears to &#039;sow division&#039; ahead of midterms \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u2019s attempt to end birthright citizenship \u2018unconstitutional\u2019, says ACLU lawyer. Follow the latest election news with our daily live blogSign up to the Guardian\u2019s new US morning briefing 1.55pm GMT Two Republican representatives are criticizing Trump\u2019s desire to end birthright citizenship.Costello, who represents Pennsylvania and is retiring, calls the announcement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}