Trump Calls for End of Birthright Citizenship , for Kids of Unauthorized Immigrants.
On May 30, Trump pledged to take action against birthright citizenship if he secures another term as President of the United States, CBS News reports.
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If elected, the former president promises to issue an executive order on his first day in office.
The executive order would instruct the U.S. government to prohibit children of non-citizens from attaining citizenship.
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My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.
They must go back, Donald Trump, via video message.
If Trump is elected as president again and goes through with issuing the executive order, he is sure to encounter legal challenges, CBS News reports.
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Adopted after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment states that all "persons born or naturalized in the United States" are "citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," CBS News reports.
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Any executive action that a president might try to end birthright citizenship would be challenged in court and would be likely struck down as unconstitutional, Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, via CBS News.
I think it's pretty clear that, for political purposes, he thinks that this kind of announcement will appeal to his base.
, Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, via CBS News.
It shows that he has anti-immigration credentials.
And most of his voters don't know or don't care about whether such an executive order would be legal, Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration law professor at Cornell University, via CBS News
