If he wins the 2024 election, former President Donald Trump has vowed to prevent Nigerians and other nationals from obtaining citizenship for their children who were born in the United States.
Trump declared that on his first day back in office in January 2025, he would issue an executive order denying citizenship to children whose parents are not citizens of the United States or lawful permanent residents.
Despite the fact that their parents may not be citizens or be lawfully present in the nation, children born on American soil are automatically granted citizenship under a decades-old reading of the Constitution.
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In the past, the program had drawn criticism, with critics basing their case on the encouragement it gives to parents to enter the country illegally.
Remember that he often raised the idea of contesting the interpretation when he was in the White House, but he never did so.
Trump described the action in his announcement on Tuesday as a component of a larger crackdown on undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers that he has pledged if he returns to the White House.
The biggest immigrant roundup and deportation operation in American history will also be launched, according to his pledge.
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“My 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. They must go back,” Trump said in a video message on Tuesday.
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