The US president campaigned on immigration reform and the need to curb widespread illegal immigration through the US's border with Mexico, recently calling on the military to move troops to the border to stop a migrant caravan heading to the United States from Central America.
Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order which would remove the right of automatic citizenship for the children of illegal and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil.
“It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't. Number one. Number one you don't need that. Number two, you could definitely do it with an act of Congress. Now, they're saying I can do it just with an executive order,” Trump said, speaking to Axios on HBO on Monday.
“We're the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States for 85 years with all those benefits. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous, and it has to end,” the president said.
Asked whether he was discussing the issue with his advisers, Trump confirmed that he has, and that the executive order is “in the process. It'll happen. With an executive order, that's what you're talking about, right? That's a very interesting [question]. I didn't think anybody knew that but me. I thought I was the only one.”
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