United States, Trump threatens to eliminate birthright citizenship

teleSUR English

*Constitution grants citizenship to any person born in the country event if parents are foreigners *Experts say fear is Trump’s strategy to get immigrants to return to their countries *According to jurists eliminating birthright citizenship is something very difficult to do

Transcript

00:00And the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, returned to threaten undocumented

00:04immigrants this time in his most recent statements, where he affirmed that he will eliminate birthright

00:09citizenship.

00:10For New York, our correspondent, Henrique Camelo, with details.

00:16Restricting immigration at any cost, even through fear, is what experts believe the

00:21most recent statements made by Donald Trump in his first interview after being elected

00:26president to the NBC channel, where he ratified his promise to eliminate birthright citizenship.

00:33You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one.

00:36Is that still your plan?

00:37Yeah, absolutely.

00:40The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution automatically grants citizenship to anyone

00:45born in the country, even if their parents are not citizens.

00:49For legal scholars, the path to eliminating birthright citizenship will be difficult,

00:54but not impossible.

01:00He would have to get a supermajority in both chambers.

01:06He would need at least 38 of the 50 states in the nation to approve that change.

01:11And that is very difficult.

01:12It is not impossible, but it is very difficult.

01:21Well, that's not right, because his family, where he comes from, was also an immigrant.

01:32What is he talking about?

01:33I don't think it's right.

01:38I don't want to be breaking up families.

01:40So the only way not to break up the family is to keep them together.

01:44And you have to send them all back.

01:50Donald Trump is a racist.

01:55The policies he made in his first term as president and also the proposals he made during

01:59his campaign are racist proposals, based on an exclusion and an idea of who really belongs

02:09and deserves to be here, and who does not.

02:15According to legal experts, fear seems to be Trump's strategy to get immigrants to return

02:20to their countries voluntarily.

02:26His main weapon is not really what happens, but the feeling it creates, the feeling of

02:34fear, the feeling of panic.

02:39He knows the fragility, the emotional delicacy of immigrants.

02:46Therefore, the call is to remain calm and united.

02:53It is not very likely that he will achieve that, but what he does achieve is to damage

02:58the relationship between immigrants and the people who live here.

03:07Trump will once again be up against the ropes, since eliminating birthright citizenship,

03:12according to jurists, is something very difficult to do.

03:15So we will see what will be his trick up his sleeve as of January 20th.

Category

Transcript

Recommended