Matt Walsh’s Idea For Foreign-Born Lawmakers Makes It To The House Floor

A House lawmaker introduced a constitutional amendment this week that would do exactly what Daily Wire host Matt Walsh called for last month: bar foreign-born citizens from serving in Congress.

The proposed constitutional amendment, introduced this week by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), would require members of Congress, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed appointees to be natural-born citizens — the same standard the Constitution already sets for president and vice president.

In late April, Walsh proposed his “heritage American Bill of Rights,” the first rule of which was intended to do exactly this:

“Rule number one: First-generation immigrants should not be permitted to serve in Congress at all, especially illiterate Somali ones,” Walsh said. “We already require that presidents must be natural-born citizens. And that requirement should simply be extended to Congress as well.”

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Walsh added that “if you just got here, then you have no business telling Americans how to live their lives,” or “spend their money. ”

Both Walsh and the amendment proposed by Mace point to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with the 18 other foreign-born members of Congress.

Members of Congress like Omar have made clear “their loyalty is not here,” Mace said. Walsh argued that first-generation immigrants like Omar have no business “complaining all the time or defaming millions of people,” adding that “it’s the height of humiliation for Americans to have to listen to a member of Congress talk about World War 11.”

Mace’s proposal faces an uphill battle in its form as a constitutional amendment. Ratification would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate, followed by approval from three-fourths of the states — a bar that has not been cleared by any amendment since 1992.

Democrats reacted furiously to Mace’s amendment, with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), herself a naturalized citizen born in India, calling the measure “racist legislation” and saying it “denies the very history of a country that has been proudly shaped by immigrants.”

In his “heritage American Bill of Rights,” Walsh further proposes deporting (or denaturalizing and then deporting) foreigners and naturalized citizens who cannot speak English or who become a net drain on taxpayers, as well as barring new citizens from voting for 10 years.

“We can’t prevent people from voting based on race, and we shouldn’t, and no one is suggesting that,” Walsh said. “But we can protect our institutions by taking basic steps to make sure that voters are actual adult citizens of the country who are assimilated into the culture and invested in it.”

Walsh calls for requiring all voters to pass a fifth-grade civics exam in English, and disenfranchising welfare recipients — even if they’re native-born U.S. citizens.

“If you want to vote, there has to be some legacy you want to protect,” Walsh said. “You should not be able to vote yourself money from the public treasury.”