CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vocal proponents of ending birthright citizenship acknowledge that view has long been dismissed as a far-right fantasy. Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon, who supports the idea of ending birthright citizenship and favored the broad use of executive actions when he served in the administration, wanted to keep the hot-button issue on the back burner. And when the idea came up at a Heritage Foundation symposium in September, one scholar at the conservative think tank cautioned that those who ‘even hover near the question of birthright citizenship immediately feel the wrath of the ruling class.’ But President Donald Trump has never been cowed by elite opinion, and on Tuesday [10-30-18], less than a week before the midterm elections, he made it a major political flashpoint, telling Axios in an interview posted Tuesday that he was preparing an executive order to end the constitutional guarantee of American citizenship to anyone born within the U.S.”
–Annie Karni and Eliana Johnson, ” How Trump’s ‘birthright’ idea went from the fringe to the Oval Office,” Politico, October 30, 2018 8:12 pm