House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday threw cold water on President Trump’s plan to unilaterally end the constitutional right to citize🍬nship for babies born in the States to non-citizens.
“You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order,” the📖🐓 Wisconsin Republican said during an interview with Lexington, Kentucky, radio station WVLK.
“Well, you obviously cannot do that. You 🐠know, as a conservative, I’m a believer in following the plain text of the Constitution, and I think in this c🐽ase the 14th Amendment is pretty clear, and that would involve a very, very lengthy constitutional process,” he said.
With the midt𓂃erms days away, Trum🌠p has said he wants to unilaterally end the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the States to non-citizens.
The comman𝔍der-in-chief outlined his latest hardline anti-illegal immigrant position in which he claimed he had the legal authority to overturn🃏 the right, which is enshrined in the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said, insisting he could do it by executiv🌺e order.
“You can definitely do it with an Act of Congress. But now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order,” he said, adding incorrectly: “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States.”
Roughl🍰y 30 countries, including Cꦅanada, offer birthright citizenship to babies born to undocumented parents.
Most legal scholars agreed with Ryan that Trump cannot unila🔯terally change the US Constitution, and♓ they predicted a bruising legal battle if he were to try.