Multiple U.S. adults, including Hispanics, have come out in support of President-elect Donald Trump's touted plan to repeal the country's anchor baby policy, which grants birthright U.S. citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants. The latest opinion poll revealed that.
of economist/YouGov public opinion poll 45% of Americans have revoked birthright citizenship from U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, including 48% of white Americans and 42% of Hispanics It became.
Similarly, 50% of Americans with annual incomes between $50,000 and $100,000, 49% of Americans with annual incomes of $100,000 or more, and 66% of Republicans support abolishing birthright citizenship.
A minority of Americans, 42 percent, oppose ending birthright citizenship.
In an exclusive interview in May 2023, President Trump told Breitbart News that he intended to sign an executive order on “day one” ending the anchor baby policy.
“On the first day of his new term, President Trump will issue an executive order making it clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of future laws, future children of illegal aliens will not automatically become U.S. citizens. I will sign it.”
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A study last year found that less than 4 in 10 households headed by a U.S.-born American were on at least one primary form of welfare, while fewer than 4 in 10 households headed by an illegal alien were It was found that nearly 60% of households were receiving welfare.
U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, commonly known as “anchor babies,” are granted birthright citizenship even though their parents have no legal ties to the United States, and many I have just recently arrived across the country.
Years later, when an anchor baby becomes an adult, they can sponsor a green card for their parents or foreign relatives, allowing their family to settle in the United States for generations. The prize of birthright citizenship is coveted among foreigners, making birth tourism a lucrative business.
As of 2023, 5.8 million Anchor babies in the United States, meaning a population that exceeds the number of births in the United States each year.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled that U.S.-born children of illegal aliens must be granted birthright citizenship, and many legal scholars dispute this idea. There is.
Many leading conservative scholars argue that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not confer mandatory birthright citizenship on U.S.-born children of illegal aliens or noncitizens. . Because these children are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction, as that term was understood when the Fourteenth Amendment was enacted. Ratified.
The United States and Canada are among them a handful Developed countries, primarily in North and South America, that have birthright citizenship policies for all persons born within their physical borders, regardless of immigration status.
Countries such as Australia, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand and Spain reserve birthright citizenship to children born to at least one citizen parent.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
