Trump will issue executive orders targeting immigration and citizenship
Updated: 11:52 AM EST Jan 20, 2025
If you were born in America, citizenship is your birthright. You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan? Yes, absolutely. We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous. It’s almost certainly going to be challenged in the courts. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship in the US, meaning any child born in the country is *** citizen with some very limited exceptions. Following the Civil War in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified, but it’s in the spotlight now with critics calling for its end. President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Under Biden’s current policies, even though these millions of illegal border crosses have entered the country unlawfully, all of their future children will become automatic US citizens. Can you imagine? They’ll be eligible for welfare, taxpayer funded health care, the right to vote, chain migration, and countless other government benefits. Senator Tim Kaine, *** Democrat from Virginia, recently took to the floor to remind fellow lawmakers of the 14th Amendment’s history. Section 1 states all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they resign. This protection overturned the Supreme Court’s ruling in the 1857 case Dred Scott v. Sanford, which had ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the US and therefore did not have the same protections as citizens. Dred Scott was enslaved trying to fight his way to freedom as the Civil War came to *** close with President Lincoln assassinated. And with slavery abolished by the 13th Amendment. The reunited nation realized it needed to fix the damage done by the Dredsky case. The Supreme Court further defined citizen in the 1898 ruling of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, Wong Kim Ark was denied reentry to the US after visiting his parents in China. He was denied on grounds that he was not considered *** US citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. The court ruled in Kim Ark’s favor, stating he was *** citizen because he was born on US soil. This landmark decision helped clearly define the Supreme Court’s interpretation of *** citizen. Birthright citizenship means that you are *** US citizen if you are born in America. Your right to citizenship does not depend upon the status of your parents. And from then on, millions of people across America have benefited from this protection. Dred Scott, Wong Kimmar. And Donald Trump all meet that test. According to the Pew Research Center, 4.4 million US born children lived with an unauthorized immigrant parent in 2022. The population is estimated to have grown since then. This concept of just sole, the right of the soil, is shared with dozens of other countries. 75 countries in the world have some form of birthright citizenship, of which over 30 have unrestricted birthright policies like the United States. So can *** president end birthright citizenship? The straightforward answer is not likely. No president has the authority to eliminate or modify *** constitutional amendment. If they were to issue an executive order, it would be unconstitutional. Changing *** constitutional amendment would need extensive support from lawmakers. The process is pretty laborious. It’s pretty long and difficult. Amending the Constitution requires 2/3 support in both houses of Congress. And the ratification by 3/4 of state legislatures. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is pushing *** bill to get rid of birthright citizenship by adding requirements to the parents’ legal status in order to gain citizenship. In *** 2023 campaign video, Trump previewed his intentions on the matter. My new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law. Going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic US citizenship. Trump said he would also stop pregnant women from entering the US to give birth, *** practice sometimes referred to as birth tourism. If in the off chance the 14th Amendment does change, some experts say it would create new issues. What we would do is essentially create an entire class of stateless people, an entire class of stateless children. These children can’t be deported anywhere they’re only citizens of the United States so we have people here who would not have the full rights and privileges of being *** US citizen that would cause economic instability, social instability.
Trump will issue executive orders targeting immigration and citizenship
Updated: 11:52 AM EST Jan 20, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America’s immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said.But it’s unclear how Trump would carry out some of his executive orders, including ending automatic citizenship for everyone born in the country, while others were expected to be immediately challenged in the courts.The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview some of the orders expected later Monday.Immigrant communities were bracing for the crackdown that Trump, a Republican, had been promising throughout his campaign and again at a rally Sunday just ahead of his inauguration.The official previewed a sweeping update of what was to come as the Trump administration gears up to make due on a campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations. The measures seemed designed to bolster border security including sending an undetermined amount of troops to the southern border.One of the key announcements is the effort to end birthright citizenship — one of Trump’s most sweeping immigration efforts yet to redefine what it means to be American.Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen. It’s been in place for over a century and applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. Trump’s effort to end it is certain to face legal challenges.Trump also intends to suspend refugee resettlement for four months, the official said. That’s a program that for decades has allowed hundreds of thousands of people from around the world fleeing war and persecution to come to the United States.Trump similarly suspended the refugee program at the beginning of his first term, and then after reinstating it, cut the numbers of refugees admitted into the country every year.
WASHINGTON —President-elect Donald Trump is going to issue a series of orders aimed at remaking America’s immigration policies, ending asylum access, sending troops to the southern border and ending birthright citizenship, an incoming White House official said.
But it’s unclear how Trump would carry out some of his executive orders, including ending automatic citizenship for everyone born in the country, while others were expected to be immediately challenged in the courts.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview some of the orders expected later Monday.
Immigrant communities were bracing for the crackdown that Trump, a Republican, had been promising throughout his campaign and again at a rally Sunday just ahead of his inauguration.
The official previewed a sweeping update of what was to come as the Trump administration gears up to make due on a campaign promise to crack down on illegal immigration and carry out mass deportations. The measures seemed designed to bolster border security including sending an undetermined amount of troops to the southern border.
One of the key announcements is the effort to end birthright citizenship — one of Trump’s most sweeping immigration efforts yet to redefine what it means to be American.
Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the United States automatically becomes an American citizen. It’s been in place for over a century and applies to children born to someone in the country illegally or in the U.S. on a tourist or student visa who plans to return to their home country. Trump’s effort to end it is certain to face legal challenges.
Trump also intends to suspend refugee resettlement for four months, the official said. That’s a program that for decades has allowed hundreds of thousands of people from around the world fleeing war and persecution to come to the United States.
Trump similarly suspended the refugee program at the beginning of his first term, and then after reinstating it, cut the numbers of refugees admitted into the country every year.
