During a sit-down interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker this week, President-elect Donald Trump doubled down on plans to end birthright citizenship — possibly, he suggested, through executive action.
“We’re going to end that because it’s ridiculous,” Trump said when asked about birthright citizenship, adding, in response to whether he would try to use his own authority: “Well, if we can, through executive action.”
Birthright citizenship refers to the principle that a person born in a particular country automatically, regardless of parental immigration status, becomes a citizen themselves. It has been practiced since the nation’s founding — though previously to the exclusion of certain groups, such as Native Americans and slaves.
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