Trump suggests he will end birthright citizenship with executive order

President falsely claimed US is ‘the only country in the world’ to endow the right and that he would move to sign order ending it

Donald Trump has has insisted he will move to end the right to American citizenship for the children of non-citizens born in the US, a pledge he made frequently throughout the 2016 campaign and one often dismissed as legally unfeasible by scholars.

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