On White House Lawn, Trump Again Floats Stripping Birthright Citizenship

President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday his administration is considering ending birthright citizenship, the third salvo against immigrants from the White House in the last 24 hours.

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Trump’s comments were delivered with their usual bombast and inaccuracy.

“We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship, where you have a baby on our land, you walk over the border, have a baby—congratulations, the baby is now a U.S. citizen,” the president said on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One to head to Kentucky. “It’s frankly ridiculous.”

Birthright citizenship is enshrined in the 14th Amendment, but that hasn’t stopped Trump and his administration from exploring the possibility of stripping it from the children of non-citizens. Most notably, on October 30, 2018 the president told Axios reporter Jonathan Swan that the administration was considering overturning the right through executive order, a comment that drew furious backlash from across the political spectrum.