Ending Birthright Citizenship Would Increase Number of Unauthorized People in US: Analysis

If birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants is eliminated, as President Donald Trump has ordered, the illegal immigrant population in the United States would grow significantly, a new report has found. Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order states that although the 14th Amendment recognizes the citizenship of people born in the United States, it has never been interpreted as a guarantee of universal citizenship for all those born in the country. The new report, published on May 13 by the Migration Policy Institute and Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute, reported that eliminating the right to birthright citizenship “would significantly swell the size of the unauthorized population—now and for generations to come.”...