Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Is for the Children of Freed Slaves, Not Temporary Visitors

President Donald Trump said on March 30 that the country’s current birthright citizenship policy was created to grant citizenship to freed slaves and their children, not to those children born to temporary visitors. Trump’s comments came as the Supreme Court prepares to hear Trump v. Barbara on April 1. The case is about whether his Executive Order 14160, which excludes the children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors from automatically gaining U.S. citizenship at birth, is constitutional. The order has been blocked in the lower courts. “Birthright Citizenship is not about rich people from China, and the rest of the World, who want their children, and hundreds of thousands more, FOR PAY, to ridiculously become citizens of the United States of America,” Trump wrote on Truth Social....