US lawmakers have expressed their opposition to President Donald Trump’s proposal that he intends to sign an executive order to end the automatic right to citizenship for anyone born in the United States.
Trump said on Tuesday that he would issue an executive order for this purpose; however, declining to talk about the specific actions he would take to pursue the plan.
According to the 14th Amendment of the US constitution, all people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the country and of the State where they reside in. This cannot be changed by the president and requires Congress to decide over the issue.
US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan rejected Trump’s stated push to eliminate birthright citizenship via executive order, saying that the move was not possible.
“Well, you obviously cannot do that. You cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order,” Ryan said in an interview with radio station…