Birthrights, refugees, and the “national emergency” at the Mexican border ‘National emergency’ is the term Trump used to describe the situation at the US-Mexico border.
It has so cleared the path for the deployment of American military personnel to patrol the border. Mexican drug gangs were likewise designated as “foreign terrorist organizations” under the act.
Trump also declared that a new executive order, which he described as “a priceless and profound gift,” would restrict automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants born in the United States.
It says that if a person’s “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said.
person’s birth” or “when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary,” then US citizenship does not transfer to the child.
