Birthright citizenship was for children of slaves, not for world to ‘pile’ into US: Trump

Trump has said that helium would entreaty against it. On Thursday, helium exuded assurance that the Supreme Court would regularisation successful his favour.

“Birthright citizenship was, if you look backmost erstwhile this was passed and made, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the full satellite to travel successful and heap into the United States of America,” Trump told reporters successful the Oval Office of the White House.

“Everybody coming in, and wholly unqualified radical with possibly unqualified children. This wasn’t meant for that,” helium said.

Asserting that it was meant for the children of slaves,” helium said it was a “very bully and noble” happening to do.

“I’m successful favour of that 100 per cent. But it wasn’t meant for the full satellite to inhabit the United States,” Trump said.

“I conscionable deliberation that we’ll extremity up winning that successful the Supreme Court. I deliberation we’re going to triumph that case. I look guardant to winning it.” “At that level, we’re the lone state successful the satellite that does this,” helium said.

Early this week, a radical of Republican Senators introduced a measure successful the US Senate to restrict birthright citizenship to the children of amerciable immigrants and non-immigrants connected impermanent visas.

According to Senators Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Katie Britt, who introduced the bill, the exploitation of birthright citizenship is simply a large propulsion origin for amerciable migration and a weakness for nationalist security.

The US is 1 of lone 33 countries successful the satellite with nary restrictions connected birthright citizenship, they said. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that successful 2023, determination were 2,25,000 to 2,50,000 births to amerciable immigrants, amounting to adjacent to 7 per cent of births successful the US.

The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025 specifies who tin person citizenship by virtuousness of their commencement successful the United States, including children calved to astatine slightest 1 genitor who is either a national oregon nationalist of the US, a lawful imperishable nonmigratory of the US, oregon an alien performing progressive work successful the equipped forces. This measure lone applies to children calved aft the day of enactment.

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