Donald Trump eyeing executive order to end US birthright citizenship

US President Donald Trump is vowing to sign an executive order that would seek to end the right to US citizenship for children born in the United States to noncitizens, a move most legal experts say runs afoul of the Constitution.

The action, which Trump previewed in a television clip broadcast Tuesday, would be the most aggressive by a president elected to office pledging to take a hard line on immigration, an issue he has revived in advance of next week’s midterm elections.

“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 for 85 years with all of those benefits,” Trump said during an interview with Axios scheduled to air as part of a new HBO series starting this weekend.

“It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”Read More..https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12151789

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