Corey Lewandowski to Newsmax: Ending Birthright Citizenship 'Interesting Legal Question'

Corey Lewandowski, senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, said Monday on Newsmax that ending birthright citizenship presents a "very interesting legal question."

Trump has said that birthright citizenship, guaranteed to the American-born child of an illegal immigrant by the Constitution's 14th Amendment, "absolutely" must end.

"Donald Trump has said that once you step one foot into this country, if you have a baby here, that person, by the Constitution, is an American citizen," Lewandowski told "National Report." "There are some real concerns about that.

"We know that people come to this country just to have their children here. We also know that we've got tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, of convicted criminals in this country that have to be deported. We know that we've got murderers and rapists and people who've been let in over the last few years who Donald Trump's priority is going to be to first seal the border, and that only legal immigrants get to come in, and then to deport the people who shouldn't be here legally."