Birthright Betrayal: Trump's Endgame on Citizenship The latest move in Donald Trump's crusade against birthright citizenship underscores the administration's willingness to wield executive power as a blunt instrument of policy making.
Last Thursday, Trump signed two executive orders aimed at curtailing automatic US citizenship for children born on American soil – a decision driven more by ideology than pragmatism.
Birthright citizenship is an enshrined principle in the 14th Amendment, passed in 1868 to grant citizenship to former slaves and their descendants.