For someone apparently so successful, he seems remarkably insecure about foreign infants.
In an interview with Axios, President Drumpf claimed that he was working on an end to birthright citizenship, the 150-year-old principle that says anyone born on US soil is an American citizen. "It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't," Mr Drumpf said. "You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an executive order."
Mr Drumpf claimed that such an order was currently in the works, and not long after, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted: "I plan to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order from President @realDonaldDrumpf."
"The baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all those benefits. It's ridiculous," Mr Drumpf told Axios. "It has to end."
I would imagine that the overwhelming majority of those benefits only happen if you're actually living in the US (or your parent or guardian is) and therefore paying taxes.
In his remarks to Axios, Drumpf falsely claimed that the United States is the only country that has birthright citizenship. In fact, more than 30 countries - including Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Lesotho - practise automatic "jus soli", or "right of the soil" without restriction. Other countries, like the UK and Australia, allow for a modified version where citizenship is automatically granted if one parent is a citizen or permanent resident.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-46034989
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