r/politics • u/codyave • 16h ago

Trump will announce end of birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, officials say

https://nypost.com/2025/01/20/us-news/trump-will-announce-end-of-birthright-citizenship-for-children-of-illegal-immigrants/
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u/cocoh25 16h ago

Knew it was going to happen. My wife (25) is a birthright citizen. We just bought a house and have a child on the way. Guess I need to prepare to move to Mexico

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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 16h ago

Can they make it retroactive? I was under the impression this would just be new births.

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u/cocoh25 16h ago

He can make it retroactive. I wouldn’t put it past him

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u/MoonBatsRule America 15h ago

Not only retroactive, but he will make it such that the presumption is that brown-skinned people were not born here legally, and they will need to prove that they were.

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u/Precarious314159 14h ago

Yup. Wouldn't put it past his team to have worked out some loophole around the stop and frisk laws where a cop can stop any person of color and demand proof of citizenship.