Key points
- Birthright citizenship is enshrined in US constitution
- Trump to face legal challenges
- Immigrants’ screening to be enhanced
Washington: Donald Trump plans to issue executive orders as president that would end birthright citizenship in the United States.
An incoming administration official told reporters Monday that they are going to end right to asylum too.
“We’re going to end asylum… which creates an immediate removal process without possibility of asylum. We are then going to end birthright citizenship,” the official said.
The US official hinted at amending the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
He said in a briefing, “The federal government will not recognise automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens born in the United States.
The official said, “we are also enhance vetting and screening of illegal aliens.”
We’re going to end asylum… which creates an immediate removal process without possibility of asylum. We are then going to end birthright citizenship.” – Incoming administration official
On the first day of his new term, President Donald Trump signed orders ranging from climate to immigration, along with sweeping pardons for many of those who stormed the capital on January 6, 2021.
Executive orders
Trump signed various orders aimed at reshaping how the United States manages immigration and citizenship.
One declared a national emergency at the southern border.
Trump also promised a mass deportation operation involving the military, which he says will target those he called “criminal aliens.”
But automatic US citizenship to people born in the country is enshrined in the Constitution, and Trump’s action is certain to face a legal challenge.
Trump signed pardons for some of the 1,500 participants in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by his supporters trying to overturn the 2020 election.
He again referred to those who were convicted or pleaded guilty over the riots as “hostages.”
Trump repealed various executive orders promoting diversity programmes and LGBTQ equality, in line with his promised attack on “woke” culture.