WATCH: President Trump To Sign Executive Order Curbing Birthright Citizenship
Monday, during an exclusive interview as part of a new four-part documentary news series for “Axios on HBO,” President Trump announced plans to sign an executive order removing the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil.
The dispute over the long-recognized interpretation of the 14th Amendment has given rise to what Trump considers abuse of the immigration system.
The 14th Amendment 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 reside.”
Trump told “Axios on HBO” he has ran the idea of ending birthright citizenship by his council and has made plans to proceed with the move immediately.
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“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said, declaring he can do it by executive order.
“How ridiculous, 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 … with all of those benefits,” Trump continued. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
“It’s in the process. It’ll happen … with an executive order.”
Former National Security adviser for Trump, Michael Anton, pointed out in July that “there’s a clause in the middle of the amendment that people ignore or they misinterpret – subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
“What they are saying is, if you are born on U.S. soil subject to the jurisdiction of the United States – meaning you’re the child of citizens or the child of legal immigrants, then you are entitled to citizenship,” Anton told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in July. “If you are here illegally, if you owe allegiance to a foreign nation, if you’re the citizen of a foreign country, that clause does not apply to you.”
The interview was released after Trump told Fox News that Central American migrants who are approaching the U.S.-Mexico border in caravans are “wasting their time, vowing, “they are not coming in.”
President Trump spoke to “The Ingraham Angle” just hours after the Pentagon announced it would be deploying some 5,200 troops to the southern border in what the commander of U.S. Northern Command described as an effort to “harden the southern border” by stiffening defenses at and near legal entry points.
“When they are captured, we don’t let them out,” Trump told host Laura Ingraham. “We’re not letting them out … We’re not catching, we’re not releasing … We’re not letting them into this country.”
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