Trump Vows to End Birthright Citizenship If Elected in 2024

Former President Donald Trump is vowing to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants if he is reelected to a second term, echoing statements he made in 2018 about ending the longstanding policy.

“As part of my plan to secure the border on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump said in a policy video released on social media on Tuesday.

The former president, who is leading by double digits over the nearest GOP challenger, said that his “policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.” That policy, he argued, would “put America first” by blocking birthright citizenship, a version of was first enabled in 1868 under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Trump also targeted President Biden’s immigration policies, arguing that the current administration has unlawfully failed to secure the U.S.-Mexico border. Since taking office, Biden and White House officials have claimed that it was the Trump administration that imposed bad policies and has called on Congress to act.