Dana Perino

It's that going about it through an executive order might be the wrong way to try to achieve a policy goal.

Over and over again, what did we face?

Congress just abdicates its responsibility, walks away, and presidents get frustrated.

And they said, we want to solve something.

So on day one, President Trump, who has thought about this issue for many years, he's run on immigration.

He says, this stops today.

And it's interesting because all of a sudden the Democrats are strict constitutionalists and they love the originalism argument of which they have hated from Thomas and Alito, Barrett, Kavanaugh and Roberts.

But now all of a sudden they're like, that's not what the Constitution says.

And so as somebody who I have always believed that let's stick with the Constitution.

However, I also think that there's nothing wrong with the Supreme Court saying to the Congress, this issue should be fixed, but it's not going to work with just this executive order.

Now, maybe it'll turn out that the president wins on this one.

But this is the last point I'll make on this that I thought was so disturbing.

Because I don't really understand it.

Maybe somebody here is going to explain it to me.

In 2006, I was deputy press secretary, and the average poll of how people felt about this issue was that 45% of Americans thought that everyone who was born in America automatically became a U.S.

citizen.

45%.

Today, it's 69 percent think that anyone who was born in America, even after all of these things, all these stories, people coming here just to have their babies.

And I'm not sure where public opinion changed on this.

I could maybe take a guess, but it's gone up steadily since 2006.