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Trump executive order will attempt to end birthright citizenship
The Washington Post ^ | January 20, 2025 at 12:37 p.m. | Nick Miroff, Maria Sacchetti

Posted on 01/20/2025 10:55:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The president plans to take at least 10 actions related to the border or immigration, including ramping up deportations and suspending refugee resettlement.

The U.S. government will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to immigrants who lack legal status, one of 10 immigration-related executive orders President Donald Trump plans to sign Monday, an administration official told reporters.

The official did not provide details on how the administration planned to implement a change that scholars say would be illegal and quickly challenged. Trump’s order would reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which grants citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil, and exclude babies born to parents illegally in the country. The changes would apply to future births, the official said.

Trump will issue other executive orders that will ramp up deportations, restart border wall construction and send U.S. troops to patrol the 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration for a call with reporters.

After Trump is inaugurated, he plans to declare a national emergency at the southern border. Trump will then issue orders to restart the “Remain in Mexico” policy of his first term, designate drug cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations and suspend refugee resettlement in the United States for at least four months, officials said, reading a list of Inauguration Day actions and orders.

The Trump transition team official who spoke with reporters said the new administration also plans to “end asylum” and quickly deport anyone who crosses the border illegally, work more expansively with state and local law enforcement to detain and deport migrants, and seek the death penalty for any undocumented immigrant who commits a capital crime...

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1 posted on 01/20/2025 10:55:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not attempt, will end.


2 posted on 01/20/2025 10:59:51 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

14th Amendment was to give former slaves citizenship.

It wasn’t an invitation to the world to invade.


3 posted on 01/20/2025 10:59:53 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Executive orders can be reversed by next president. We need a law passed, or better yet a constitutional amendment ending birth rights for non-Americans.


4 posted on 01/20/2025 11:01:41 AM PST by Bobbyvotes (Congrats to Trump/Vance tea.m. America has been saved. For a while at least. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Said another way, no more anchor babies for WaPo for at least four years. American citizens coming first for the leftist rags, choke on it.


5 posted on 01/20/2025 11:09:27 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: packagingguy
14th Amendment was to give former slaves citizenship....

I listened to some NPR discussion about this last week. The guest and host were very educated-sounding, if you know what I mean. And this issue, according to them, is the hill for all self-respecting blacks, and black-respecting non-blacks to die on. It is all about RACISM, pure and simple, by President Trump, who is a hopeless RACIST. Just the camel's nose under the tent to on a march to God knows what unholiness.

6 posted on 01/20/2025 11:09:41 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There was NEVER birthright citizenship for foreigners.


7 posted on 01/20/2025 11:10:55 AM PST by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: Bobbyvotes

If executive orders can be reversed, can their pardons?


8 posted on 01/20/2025 11:11:47 AM PST by Whatever Works (The real power lies in who counts the votes and controls the teleprompter.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This EO creates standing for the lawsuit Trump really wants.

It's a good move, but don't expect it to take effect right away.

9 posted on 01/20/2025 11:13:41 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Ten bucks says that it reaches SCOTUS


10 posted on 01/20/2025 11:15:49 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Bobbyvotes

Yes but...will the next President have any electoral reason to reverse this?

What will he run on, the terrible injustice of not giving citizenship to some illegal alien’s kid?

Not a lotta traction in that one.

The interpretations of the 14th Amendment in Wong Kim Ark and the Dicta in Plyler v. Doe were made in the darkness of turgid legal opinions by the SCOTUS. The citizenry had no idea that these decisions were being made or they would have opposed them. It was only years after the fact that the reality started coming out: the “court” had sold us out.

Once it entered the political debate arena again, it’s a slam dunk: no one wants line jumpers to be rewarded. And any Rat candidate who wants to try to run on that line will find it a losing proposition.

Clarification by the Congress is needed, but for the moment, an EO directing the State Department is enough. Sure, there will be a lawsuit. Peter Schey will likely come out of retirement foaming at the mouth. But this time everyone’s watching, and it’s not 1975 anymore.


11 posted on 01/20/2025 11:18:14 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I expected these E.O.s to be signed today - Newsmax has a header, “Trump to sign flurry of executive orders” - but all he signed were basic government business documents.


12 posted on 01/20/2025 11:24:23 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: Whatever Works

Hopefully, it will be challenged in court, and the SCOTUS can rule on this once and for all. It’s always been a stupid assumption that was never supported, IMO, by the language.

Buddy... THIS is WINNING!


13 posted on 01/20/2025 11:32:10 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim (S)
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To: Whatever Works

Hopefully, it will be challenged in court, and the SCOTUS can rule on this once and for all. It’s always been a stupid assumption that was never supported, IMO, by the language.

Buddy... THIS is WINNING!


14 posted on 01/20/2025 11:32:35 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim (S)
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To: Whatever Works

Pardons cannot be “reversed”.


15 posted on 01/20/2025 11:34:33 AM PST by Fury
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s about F***ing time


16 posted on 01/20/2025 11:38:15 AM PST by Glock17 (Aim Center Mass)
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To: Bobbyvotes

A Supreme Court decision would suffice.


17 posted on 01/20/2025 11:38:42 AM PST by be-baw
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE

Can he make it retroactive?


18 posted on 01/20/2025 11:40:54 AM PST by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! Win! Win! Win!--Donald Trump)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I don’t doubt that


19 posted on 01/20/2025 11:41:07 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

We will see what happens.


20 posted on 01/20/2025 11:41:55 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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