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Of course he can't. The President has no power over it. And the fact that various European countries don't have birthright citizenship is completely immaterial. It's the Constitution of the United States that matters for US law. What Germany allows or does not allow is irrelevant.
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@evancombs5159 It's very clearly stated in the 14th Amendment. And Trumbull himself directly stated during the Senate debates over the amendment (in response to a question by Senator Edgar Cowan of Pennsylvania) that the citizenship clause would absolutely apply to all children born on US soil to foreign parents.
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@bratwurststattsucuk4517 And that's the only thing that matters to Trump and Musk. They think white Americans are the only real Americans.
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@drugoviic The only nation in the Americas that has any restriction on birthright citizenship is Venezuela. In every other country in North and South America, a child of illegal aliens born on their soil does automatically get citizenship.
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@rabidlorax1650 Canada. It's also hilarious that Republicans are now demanding that the United States should be more like Europe. And it's a ridiculously massive lie to claim that "Even if Trump got everything he wanted, the U.S. would still have the most liberal birthright citizenship of ANY developed country." The entirety of North America, and every nation in South American except for Venezuela, have completely unrestricted birthright citizenship for the children of people in the country illegally.
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That's already the way it works.
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The answer, of course, is no. The President has no power over birthright citizenship. An executive order cannot reverse the Constitution. An executive order is really just a press release with additional fanfare. Regardless of whether Trump will "recognize" birthright citizenship, it still remains the supreme law of the land. And contrary to what people arguing against jus soli have been saying, the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause was never meant solely to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children. During the Senate debates on the amendment, it was specifically asked whether the citizenship clause would apply to the children of foreigners who were born on US soil. Senator Lyman Trumbull (chair of the judiciary committee and and heavily involved in the drafting of the 14th Amendment) replied that of course it would.
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