A plurality of Americans “strongly support” changing the federal law to ensure illegal migrants cannot get citizenship for their newly born children, according to a poll by Emerson College.
One of the biggest issues of the new Trump term is birthright citizenship. The president is pushing back against it with an executive order. He has a valid, constitutional argument.
There is a common misconception in the United States that [...]
Claremont Institute scholars, including me, Ed Erler, Tom West, John Marini, and Michael Anton, President Trump’s incoming Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, have been contending for years—decades, really—that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause does not provide automatic citizenship for everyone born on U.S. soil, no matter the circumstances.
We now have an ideological agenda that runs contrary to our fundamental perspective of individual rights, freedoms, and liberties.