FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship for babies of non-immigrants and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, according to excerpts of an interview released Tuesday.
"We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the baby is essentially a citizen of the United States,” Trump told "Axios on HBO” Monday. "It’s ridiculous. And it has to end.”
The comments mark another escalation in Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. His administration announced yesterday that it would send about 5,200 troops to the southern border with Mexico by the end of the week to head off a caravan of migrants.
