NumbersUSA - Roy Beck: Where Did The Candidates End Up Rating After All Those Birthright Citizenship Comments This Week? - Trump: The gift that keeps on giving. --tma

Reporters, thanks for finally noticing the issue and asking candidates a question we've wanted you to pose for years.

Here are the changes in birthright citizenship Worker-Protection Ratings caused by new statements:

BUSH: changed Rating from No Action to VERY HARMFUL
CARSON: from No Action to VERY GOOD
CHRISTIE: from No Action to GOOD

CRUZ: from No Action to VERY GOOD
FIORINA: from Unhelpful to VERY HARMFUL
JINDAL: from No Action to VERY GOOD

PERRY: from No Action to UNHELPFUL
RUBIO: from No Action to VERY HARMFUL
TRUMP: from No Action to EXCELLENT

In addition, the following candidates stuck with the positions (and Ratings) that they had previously staked out. (Santorum and Paul deserve special recognition for taking strong stands long before Trump stirred the media's interest this past week.)

EXCELLENT: Santorum
VERY GOOD: Paul

1st STEPS: Graham
NO POSITION: Chaffee, Walker
UNHELPFUL: Biden, Clinton, Sanders, Webb

VERY HARMFUL: Huckabee
ABYSMAL: Kasich, O'Malley

"Birthright" babies eventually grow up. A few hundred thousand of them turn 18 each year and begin competing with a giant surplus of American workers who already are competing for too few jobs.

"Harmful" (red) Ratings mark candidates who are willing to continue adding to the worker surplus and making life that much harder for Americans on the economic edges.

"Good" (green) Ratings mark candidates taking a position that can eventually tighten the labor market and improve the opportunities for struggling workers. It is important to remember that the immediate effect on the labor market is that birthright citizenship causes large numbers of adult illegal aliens to feel they can remain working in the U.S. because they have a child who has been made a U.S. citizen. Our government tends to allow nearly all of them to stay once they have a baby here. ...

https://www.numbersusa.com/blog/where-did-candidates-end-rating-after-all-those-birthright-citizenship-comments-week