CNN: Inside Trump’s Plot To End Birthright Citizenship

CNN reports:

Trump has railed against birthright citizenship, which is protected by the 14th Amendment, for years and suggested he’d use executive action to ban it.

In private, his allies have been crafting strategies to do that, including directing the State Department to not issue passports to children with undocumented parents and tighten requirements for tourist visas to crack down on “birth tourism,” according to two sources familiar with the planning.

Trump allies argue that the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted and doesn’t apply to children born in the United States to undocumented parents. About three dozen countries provide automatic citizenship to people born on their soil, including US neighbors Canada and Mexico and the majority of South American countries.

Read the full article. In his rally speeches, Trump regularly lies that the US is the only country in the world with birthright citizenship.