CITIZENSHIP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s proposal to use an executive order to deny birthright citizenship to babies born in the U.S. to non-citizens and undocumented immigrants has virtually no support from legal experts across the political spectrum. The 14th Amendment of the Constitution states: ‘All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.’ A small group of mostly conservative legal scholars argue that Congress could revoke so-called birthright citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But Trump argued in an interview with Axios that he could revoke it by executive order. Court decisions dating back to the late 1800s affirm the citizenship rights of children born to immigrants, which would make it even harder to enforce such an executive order. Nearly all legal experts accept that the amendment applies to nearly all children born on U.S. soil, according to Josh Blackman, a conservative constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston.”
–Ted Hesson, “Can Trump revoke birthright citizenship? Nearly all on left and right say no.,” Politico, October 30, 2018 3:26 pm