Can Birthright Citizenship Be Stopped Without Constitutional Amendment?
Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano (L) of Mexico stands with her U.S.-born son Saul at a press conference inside the Adalberto United Methodist Church on Aug. 15, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois, where she had taken refuge for a year because she faced deportation. She became the poster child for those who argue that illegal aliens with U.S.-born children should never face deportation. JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump announced plans on Oct. 30 to issue an executive order that would end the practice of giving U.S. citizenship to children of illegal aliens.
Carol M. Swain
Author
Dr. Carol Swain, an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation and the co-author of "Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House."