Trump Seeks to Restrict Citizenship by Birth on US Soil

By Human Rights Watch

Within hours of his inauguration, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to restrict citizenship by birth on US soil. Under its terms, starting next month, children born in the United States to parents who are undocumented, or whose immigration status is only temporary, would no longer come into the world as US citizens.Trump’s order looks to remake overnight, in a narrower and meaner way, the question of what it means to be a US citizen. It would thrust untold numbers of newborn children into a kind of insecurity they do not know today. The children would no longer…

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