WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, questioned witnesses in today's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on birthright citizenship as President Trump continues his threats against it. Durbin pressed Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), which he co-founded with Steve Bannon in 2012, about his ridiculous claims that American birthright citizenship policies are being exploited by foreign adversaries, specifically China, as a form of "asymmetric warfare" to undermine U.S. sovereignty.
Mr. Schweizer argued in his written testimony to the Committee that possibly 1.5 m...