President Donald Trump claimed that he can end birthright citizenship with an executive order, during an interview with Axios released on Tuesday.
Trump said, “It was always told to me that you need a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t. Number one, you don’t need that. Number two, you can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now, they’re saying I can do it with just an executive order.”
The President went on to say,” Now how ridiculous, we are the only country in the world, where a person comes and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all those benefits. It’s ridiculous, its ridiculous and it has to end.”
When asked if he talked about the issue with his legal counsel, Trump responded “yeah,” adding that “it’s in the process.” He will eliminate birthright citizenship with an executive order.
The President is obviously escalating his hardline rhetoric on immigration. His statement also suggests that he is willing to infringe the U.S. Constitution, which was amended 150 years ago.
