President Trump appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday for a wide-ranging interview. Once again, he addressed the contentious subject of birthright citizenship, a doctrine that asserts that anyone born on U.S. soil, even to noncitizen parents or persons in the country illegally, should be considered an American citizen no matter what.
President Trump wants to get rid of unrestricted birthright citizenship, a practice that not even the most left-wing European governments engage in. When reciting the text of the 14th Amendment as a “gotcha” to his plan, “Meet the Press” omitted six crucial words: “All persons born … in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, shall be citizens of the United States.”
Nothing in the 14th Amendment stops
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