On MSNBC’s The Saturday Show, MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart fretted and fearmongered that President Donald Trump’s drive to put more limits on birthright citizenship could mean that blacks who are descended from slaves might also be stripped of citizenship.
At 6:04 p.m. Eastern, Capehart first brought up the issue as he claimed that President Trump “wants to take us back to the 19th century” and misleadingly claimed that Trump’s executive order is one that is “ending birthright citizenship.” The MSNBC host did not specify that it would primarily be illegal aliens and only some classes of legal immigrants that are affected. Here’s Capehart:
Then, there’s Trump’s rolling back the clock on civil rights laws which we’ll get into in the next block. But the President wants to take us back to the 19th century with his executive order ending birthright citizenship,…
