If President Donald Trump succeeds in ending birthright citizenship for illegal migrants and other noncitizens, he would be putting to bed a practice that has been taken advantage of by potentially millions of foreign nationals in recent years.
As many as 250,000 babies were born to illegal migrant parents in 2023, according to a recently updated estimate by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). To put that figure into perspective, the number surpassed the rate of births in most states and nearly made up seven percent of all births in the country that year.
“U.S. citizenship is the most valuable status in the entire world, because you get a passport, you get the protection of the United States government, and you get to vote,” Art Arthur, a resident fellow at the CIS, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “So when you expand the population of people who are here illegally, particularly couples, you get to a situation where this is an increasingly salient issue.” (Watch The Daily Caller’s Documentary ‘Cartelville’)
“And probably the best way to say this is kudos to the Trump administration for actually forcing the issue so that we can get a resolution,” Arthur said.
Hours after taking office, Trump signed an executive order removing birthright citizenship guarantees for individuals born to parents living in the U.S. unlawfully or on temporary visas, following through on a pledge he repeatedly made on the campaign trail. It took less than a day for Democrats and other liberal organizations to challenge the move, with the ACLU and a coalition of state attorneys general suing to block the order. […]
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