Deplorable and Illegal:
The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President-elect
Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an incoming administration official told reporters.
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The incoming official did not provide details on how the administration planned to implement a change that scholars say would be illegal. Trump’s order would reinterpret the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil, and redefine the phrase to exclude babies born to parents illegally in the country.
Trump will issue other executive orders that will ramp up deportations, restart border wall construction and send U.S. troops to patrol the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico, said the incoming official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules for a call with reporters set by the incoming administration.
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After Trump is inaugurated, he plans to declare a national emergency at the southern border. Trump will then issue orders to restart the “
Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations, and suspend refugee resettlement in the United States for at least four months, officials said, reading a list of Inauguration Day actions and orders.
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“The last four years have created an unconscionable risk to public safety, public health and the national security of the United States due to the Biden administration’s border policies,” said the incoming White House official, reading from a statement.
“It’s our duty to the American people to get control of the untenable situation we inherited,” said the incoming official.
Illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have fallen sharply over the past year and are at levels below the final months of Trump’s first term, according to the latest U.S. government data.
Trump’s rapid-fire decrees have been crafted to immediately put immigration advocates and other opponents on their heels, his aides say. They view his November win as a mandate to order sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system and said the record influx of unlawful crossings in the first three years of the Biden administration demands bold action.
The move to end birthright citizenship fulfills a goal long held by conservative groups who say too many migrants are crossing into the United States illegally to have U.S. citizen children. Trump’s order would potentially stop the State Department from issuing passports and direct the Social Security Administration to no longer recognize the babies as U.S. citizens, but the incoming official did not go into detail about the practical implications of Trump’s order.
President Joe Biden issued more executive orders related to immigration than any other topic when he took office four years ago — directives aimed at reversing many of the same policies Trump is putting back in place.
