Florida Gov. DeSantis says he would seek to eliminate the constitutional guarantee of citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants born in the U.S. if he's elected president.
to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States.
Trump, the current frontrunner in the Republican primary, has again promised to strike the protection if elected. "This idea that you can come across the border, two days later have a child, and somehow that’s an American citizen -- that was not the original understanding of the 14th Amendment and so we’ll take action to force a clarification of that," he told reporters at a news conference.
"It has never been finally determined whether someone who is transiently in the country – whether as a tourist or here illegally – whether that 14th Amendment would apply to that," he said then. "I tend to think the original interpretation of that would not apply, but I think most of the court decisions lean toward, if you're born here, you do it."
A spokesman for his campaign did not respond to a question about whether the governor would seek an executive order.including several geared toward building a wall along the southern border and others aimed at holding drug cartels accountable. He also vowed to increase the salaries of Border Patrol agents and strengthen the penalties for people who traffic fentanyl into the United States.
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