Trump Considering Executive Order To End Birthright Citizenship
Headline Roundup October 30th, 2018
President Trump says the law offering citizenship to babies of non-citizens needs to end and is considering an Executive order that would remove that right.
Trump Considering Executive Order To End Birthright Citizenship
The law offering citizenship to babies of non-citizens is “ridiculous” and “has to end,” the president said.
According to Axios, President Trump is gearing up to sign an executive order that would, in their words, “remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens born on U.S. soil.” There is some ambiguity in this formulation. Will the executive order in question limit birthright citizenship to the children of U.S. citizens, or will it extend citizenship to the children of lawful permanent residents, as in the case of most market democracies that have revised their birthright citizenship rules in recent decades?
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for "Axios on HBO," a new four-part documentary news series debuting on HBO this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT.
