President-elect Donald Trump said he still plans to end birthright citizenship in the United States on day one — but was unable to provide insight into how he would go around the 14th Amendment.
“We’re going to have to get it changed. We’ll maybe have to go back to the people,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But we have to end it.”
Trump also falsely noted that only the United States has birthright citizenship, despite other countries like Brazil and Canada also offering birthright citizenship.
Welker asked how Trump plans to end birthright citizenship and whether he would do it through executive action. Trump responded: “If we can, through executive action.”
“I was going to do it through executive action but then we had to fix Covid first, to be honest with you,” Trump said. “We have to end it. It’s ridiculous.”
The 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” A constitutional amendment approved by Congress requires ratification by three-fourths of the states.
Trump also in the interview said he wanted to “work something out” in regards to Dreamers, or children who immigrated with their families at a very young age and have since grown up in the United States.
“We have to do something about the Dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age,” Trump said. “And many of these are middle-aged people now. They don’t even speak the language of their country. And yes, we’re going to do something about the Dreamers.”
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Trump is correct. Birthright citizenship was never meant for the children of illegal aliens…
The child of a foreign diplomat, who is in this country *legally*, doesn’t even get it.
Well, doesn’t the fact that it written “before our current, globally connected world” mean that all Amendments can be up for the chopping block? If the 14th “needs to end”, wouldn’t that mean especially the earlier ones like….I don’t know….the 2nd would “need to end”?
@7LQ863BIndependent1yr1Y
The 14th amendment doesn’t need to be removed in order to end birthright citizenship being conferred upon illegal aliens. The 14th amendment doesn’t apply to those in our country illegally and not subject to the political jurisdiction of the United States.
@MAGA_Deplorable1yr1Y
Yes, but the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted so often that it should still be removed
Anyone in the United States who doesn’t have diplomatic immunity is subject to the jurisdiction and laws on the United States. So your argument has zero merit.
If you enter the US legally as a diplomat, tourist or with a work or student visa, a child born to you while here is not granted citizenship.
Why would we grant citizenship to children born to those who enter illegally? It makes no sense to reward illegal behavior.
@S3nateBenForward1yr1Y
Because foreign diplomats are subject to another another country's jurisdiction. This is literally spelling out and explained in SCOTUS rulings, which also confirm that any child born in the US to illegal immigrants is, in fact, a US citizen.
@82X57B91yr1Y
Any non-citizen who enters another country illegally is also subject to their own country’s jurisdiction.
When the 14th amendment was passed, it didn’t even apply to American Indians.
The amendment was passed to give former slaves American citizenship.
@MAGA_Deplorable1yr1Y
Plus, it was never constitutionally ratified at all...
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