Trump Considering Executive Order On Birthright Citizenship
President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday that he is looking “very seriously” at the law of birthright citizenship, confirming that he is considering issuing an executive order.
Currently, a baby born in the United States automatically receives American citizenship through the Fourteenth Amendment, even if the baby is born to undocumented immigrants. Trump has said in the past that he disagrees with birthright citizenship, noting in a 2018 interview with Axios that the law is “ridiculous” and “has to end.” Trump repeated this idea Wednesday, saying that the administration is looking at it “very seriously.”
A reporter asked Trump if he plans to issue an executive order on birthright citizenship, and Trump appeared to confirm that the idea is being looked at “very seriously.”
“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land – you walk over the border and have a baby,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “Congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen. We’re looking at it very, very seriously. I don’t know how you found that out but that’s very good. We are looking at birthright citizenship very seriously.”
“It’s frankly ridiculous.”
Trump’s 2018 comments received pushback, with former Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan saying that he “obviously” can’t get rid of birthright citizenship using an executive order, the New York Times previously reported. Trump also toted this idea during his presidential campaign, but has not yet gone through with the idea.
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I would like to say something about this “birthright citizenship” controversy.
First of all I refer to the supreme court case involving “Wong Kim Ark”. In this case both of Mr. Arks parents were Chinese and he was born on American soil. In my opinion the supreme court ruled wrongly in favor of Mr. Ark. First of all, as Chinese citizens, how can they be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” the United States? They are under the jurisdiction of China. Then secondly, you must not only be under the jurisdiction of the United States but you must be residing in a state. So this brings me back to the original intention of the 14th amendment. It was originally intended to allow the freed slaves, after the civil war, to be citizens of this country called The United States of America. They were under the jurisdiction of the United States and they were residing in one or more of the States. So the 14th amendment was written to include this population, through no fault of their own, are living here, to be citizens with the same rights and privileges afforded all other citizens.
So in my view the so called “birthright citizenship” is contrary to the Constitution of the United States of America. Should never have been legal.