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 Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an administration official told reporters.
The official did not provide details on how the administration planned to implement a change that scholars say would be illegal and quickly challenged. Trump’s order would reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil, and exclude babies born to parents illegally in the country. The changes would apply to future births, the official said.
No president can invalidate a constitutional amendment by executive order that, under normal circumstances would clearly be unconstitutional. As these aren't normal times and given the make up of the Supreme Court with its six conservative justices there's every possibility they would allow the executive order to stand.
Doing so would grant Trump dictatorial power over very aspect of government and life in the U.S.
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