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Excerpt: "U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally."

New U.S. citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally from Bangladesh, holds her 7-month-old daughter, Fahmida, as she recites the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3 in New York City. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)
New U.S. citizen Mosammat Rasheda Akter, originally from Bangladesh, holds her 7-month-old daughter, Fahmida, as she recites the oath of allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the New York Public Library on July 3 in New York City. (photo: Drew Angerer/Getty)


Trump Says He Is Seriously Looking at Ending Birthright Citizenship

By Reuters

21 August 19

 

.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration was seriously looking at ending the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of noncitizens and people who immigrated to the United States illegally.

“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby - congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. ... It’s frankly ridiculous,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.

Trump has made cracking down on immigration a central plank of his presidency and re-election campaign, but many of the administration’s sweeping rule changes and executive orders have been stymied by the courts.

The Republican president had told Axios news website in October 2018 that he would end “birthright citizenship” through an executive order. Experts have said such a move would run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.

The Constitution’s 14th Amendment, passed after the Civil War to ensure that black Americans had full citizenship rights, granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”

It has since routinely been interpreted to grant citizenship to most people born in the United States, whether or not their parents are American citizens or legally living in the United States.

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