Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill say the 14th Amendment’s language, which grants all people born in the United States citizenship, is being exploited in a way the amendment’s framers never anticipated.
They believe Trump has the authority to take action to tighten the interpretation of the 14th Amendment to exclude the children of foreign tourists, students and other classes from automatically receiving citizenship if born on U.S. territory.
And they say the conservative-leaning Supreme Court could rule that classes of foreigners on U.S. soil are not necessarily subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and therefore their children, if born in this country, are not entitled to citizenship.
“I’ve always thought that it was a bad law — to where anybody that was born here was an automatic citizen. I’d be all for making that change,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said of Trump’s proposal to curtain birthright citizenship.
Trump floated the idea unprompted during a recent interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The president-elect told NBC’s Kristen Welker that he wants to end birthright citizenship by executive action, an idea that is winning applause from Republicans in Congress.
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