Ratcheting up his hardline rhetoric on immigration, U.S. President Donald Trump claims he can end birthright citizenship.
Such remarks, coming less than a week before the midterm elections, are expected to spark a Constitutional debate... as any such move would defy the U.S. Constitution.
Kim Hyo-sun tells us more.
President Trump says he could end birthright citizenship.
In an exclusive interview with HBO and an American online media outlet, Axios... Trump explained that his administration is mulling an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of noncitizens and undocumented immigrants who are born on U.S. soil.
"We are 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 for 85 years with all of those benefits. It's redicules. It's redicules. And it has to end."
Such remarks are expected to set up a constitutional battle on whether the president can terminate with an executive order,... the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which stipulates that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S., are citizens of the country.
Yet, with the midterm elections coming up in less than a week,... his remarks are seen as way of garnering votes from supporters of his hardline policies on immigration.
Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News.
