After slogans like Buy American Hire American and Make America Great Again, US President Donald Trump managed to keep most of his election promises. One of them is reducing the unemployment rate by launching many strict immigration policies, thereby keeping jobs for locals from foreign nationals.
Looks like there is more to come from him, as he left hints recently that he’s ‘seriously looking to end US birthright citizenship, though there are all the chances for this move to face legal challenges right after the proposal and also having bleak chances to survive at Supreme court.
The 14th Amendment of the US constitution guarantees birthright citizenship and if Trump proposes to end it, lawmakers and legal scholars will be challenging the ability of a president. In 2018 too, Trump is heard to be in plans to end birthright citizenship through an executive order, though he did not give a timeline for that.
Donald Trump said, ‘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,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
Trump comfortably forgot or lacked the knowledge that there are 30 other countries in the world that have birthright citizenship. Presidential candidate, Democratic senator from California, Kamala Harris countered Trump’s comments asking the President ‘Should ‘Seriously consider reading the Constitution.’
