President Trump says he plans to end birth citizenship with an executive order
Article publisher:
9 News
Article date:
30 October 2018
Article category:
National News
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President Donald Trump wants to order the end of the constitutional right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States.
Trump made the comments to "Axios on HBO" ahead of midterm elections that he has sought to focus on his hardline immigration policies. Trump, seeking to energize his supporters and help Republicans keep control of Congress, has stoked anxiety about a caravan of Central American migrants making its way to the U.S.-Mexico border. He is dispatching additional troops and saying he'll set up tent cities for asylum seekers....
Asked about the legality of such an executive order, Trump said, "they're saying I can do it just with an executive order."
Trump added: "We're the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States."
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Watch: President Trump Readies Plan to End Birthright Citizenship Via Executive Action, Breitbart, October 30, 2018:
President Trump:
“It was always told to me that you needed a Constitutional amendment–guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. “Number one, you don’t need that. Number two, you can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order. Now, how ridiculous–we are the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits? It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous–and it has to end.”
Trump will end the anchor baby scheme, by Don Surber, October 30, 2018.