Damon Winter/The New York Times
There was a moment during the Trump administration when the president and his most ideologically committed advisers searched for a way to end birthright citizenship.
Enshrined in the first sentence of the first section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution , birthright citizenship means that anyone and everyone born on American soil is an American citizen. Written to secure the social transformations wrought by the Civil War, it is a cornerstone of the United States as a multiracial democracy.President Donald Trump would end it, he decided, by executive order. “It was always […]
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