Trump Moves To Stop Nigerians From Claiming U.S Citizenship

U.S President, Donald Trump, has announced plans to invoke an executive order that will see an end to the era where babies who are born in the United States automatically become citizens of the country.

If the executive order is evoked, it will mark the end of the long-accepted practice where citizens of order countries such as Nigeria and other countries travel to the U.S to give birth to babies who by design enjoy birthright citizenship of the country.

“We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years, with all of those benefits,” Mr. Trump told Axios during an interview, adding that, “It’s ridiculous. It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”

While other countries such as Canada, Mexico and others still grant automatic birthright citizenship, President Trump considers the practice unreasonable.

The US president said, “It was always told to me you need a constitutional amendment. Guess what, you don’t.

“You can definitely do it with an act of Congress, but now they’re saying I can do it just with an executive order. It’s in the process. It’ll happen,” he said.

To achieve his aim, President Trump would have to call off provisions of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”