President Trump began his Presidential campaign in 2015 by promising to get to work on the United States’ illegal immigration issue. The course of action he is currently considering would be his most sweeping action yet.
The President told “Axios on HBO” that he is considering an executive order that would end birthright citizenship for the children of non-citizens and those who are in the country illegally. In the exclusive interview, President Trump told the interviewer that the United States is “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 for 85 years, with all of those benefits.” Then he added, “It’s ridiculous, it’s ridiculous. And it has to end.” Academic studies say that more than 30 countries offer birthright citizenship.
The debate over this issue will focus on the wording of the 14thAmendment, which was passed in the wake of the Civil War. It reads, “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 reside.”
Changing the wording of an amendment to the Constitution would require a 2/3 vote in the Senate and the ratification of 3/4 of the states. However, some conservative legal scholars argue that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction…
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