Statements by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

Mar-a-Lago, FL—  President Donald J. Trump will travel to Iowa on Wednesday and Thursday of this week to meet with grassroots supporters, local media, Iowa elected officials, and participate in a town hall with FOX News’ Sean Hannity.

 

 

Wednesday, May 31

 

President Trump will appear in-studio with Simon Conway of 1040 WHO Des Moines for an interview.

 

Thursday, June 1

 

President Trump will attend the Westside Conservative Breakfast in Urbandale and will host a luncheon with dozens of Iowa faith leaders in Des Moines.

 

He will then visit with hundreds of grassroots leaders and supporters before participating in a FOX News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity at the Horizon Events Center.

Mar-a-Lago, FL—  In a new Agenda47 video, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.

 

“As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” President Trump said.

 

Watch President Trump’s Day One Plan to Discourage Illegal Immigration by Ending Automatic Citizenship for Children of Illegal Aliens

 

“My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.”

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO DISCOURAGE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BY ENDING AUTOMATIC CITIZENSHIP FOR THE CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND OUTLAWING BIRTH TOURISM  

 

A DAY-ONE EXECUTIVE ORDER TO SHUT OFF A MAGNET FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:

 

- On Day One, President Trump will sign an Executive Order to stop federal agencies from granting automatic U.S. citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.

 

- It will explain the clear meaning of the 14th Amendment, that U.S. Citizenship extends only to those both born in AND “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

 

 

- It will make clear that going forward, the children of illegal aliens will not be granted automatic citizenship, and should not be issued passports, Social Security numbers, or be eligible for certain taxpayer funded welfare benefits. 

 

- It will direct federal agencies to require that at least one parent be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident for their future children to become automatic U.S. citizens. 

 

- This Executive Order ending automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens will eliminate a major incentive for illegal immigration, discourage future waves of illegal immigration to exploit this misapplication of citizenship, and encourage illegal aliens in the U.S. to return home.

 

- The Executive Order will also stop “ Birth Tourism .” 

 

- Through “Birth Tourism,”  tens of thousands  of foreign nationals fraudulently enter the U.S. each year during the final weeks of their pregnancies for the sole purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for their child. 

 

- Under the current erroneous interpretation, the children of these foreign nationals are then eligible to  receive  a host of government benefits reserved for U.S. citizens, including a myriad of welfare programs and taxpayer funded healthcare, as well as chain migration and the right to vote.

 

- The Executive Order is part of a larger strategy to fully secure the Southern Border starting on Day One. It will remove a major incentive for illegal aliens and other foreign nationals to come to and remain in the United States in violation of our laws and National sovereignty.

 

- The announcement of today’s Executive Order follows a historical slate of hundreds of executive actions, proclamations, and presidential memorandums on border security and immigration that President Trump implemented while in office to remake the immigration system in the United States for the interest of the American people, including:

 

- Executive Order Implementing the Travel Ban and Pausing Refugee Admissions

 

- Executive Order on Border Security and Immigration Enforcement 

 

- Presidential Memorandum on the Extreme Vetting of Foreign Nationals 

 

- Presidential Memorandum to Create a National Vetting Center

 

- Executive Order to Unleash Interior Immigration Enforcement 

 

- Executive Order to Block Federal Grants to Sanctuary Cities

 

- Presidential Memorandum Ordering DHS to Train National Guard Troops to Assist with Border Enforcement

 

- Presidential Memorandum to End "catch and release" at the Border

 

- Presidential Proclamation Suspending Entry Across Southern Border Outside Ports of Entry to Bar Asylum Access

 

- Executive Order requiring the U.S. Government to Prioritize the Hiring of U.S. Workers in the Administration of all Immigration Programs

 

- Executive Order on Aligning Federal Contracting and Hiring Practices with the Interests of American Workers

 

- Presidential Proclamation Suspending Chain Migration, Visa Lottery, and All Non-Essential Foreign Workers

 

- Presidential Proclamation on Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System

 

- Presidential Memorandum to Cut Off Immigrant Access to the Welfare State

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER WILL FINALLY ENSURE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NO LONGER ADHERES TO A PATENTLY INCORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT:

 

- Constitutional scholars have shown for decades that granting automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States is based on a patently incorrect interpretation of the 14th Amendment. 

 

- The  14th Amendment  extends federal citizenship to “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” 

 

- The purpose of the 14th Amendment had nothing to do with the citizenship of immigrants, let alone the citizenship of the children of illegal aliens. Its purpose was to extend citizenship to people newly freed from slavery, whose status was left in question after the infamous case  Dred Scott v. Sandford . 

 

- The framers of the 14th Amendment made  clear  that “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens [or] who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers” are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S.

 

- For years, open-borders proponents have deliberately misinterpreted “subject to the jurisdiction” in the 14th Amendment to mean merely subject to American law, which is the case for anyone physically present in the United States.  

 

- This twisting of the amendment's meaning and intent has caused America to become one of the few countries in the world to extend citizenship to the children of illegal aliens even if both parents are not citizens nor even legally present in the United States, thus diluting the privileges that Americans are entitled to.

 

BIDEN’S OPEN BORDER POLICY IS A NATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMIC, AND HUMANITARIAN DISASTER: 

 

- A record number of illegal aliens crossed the southern border in both 2021 and 2022. In the official numbers alone, there have been over 6.6 million  illegal   crossings  since Biden took office—but the true numbers are much higher. 

 

- Biden has deliberately made his border disaster worse by abolishing Title 42 this month, allowing for an additional  400,000  illegal aliens from all corners of the globe to pour across our border each month. 

 

- This invasion is wasting our resources, lowering our citizens’ wages, poisoning our communities with lethal drugs, and threatening our national security. 

 

- Illegal immigration  reduces  American workers’ wages by $99 to $118 billion each year, with the burden falling most heavily on low-wage workers. 

 

- Thousands of pounds of deadly drugs are pouring across our borders, poisoning over 100,000 of our citizens each year. Fueled in large part by Biden’s border disaster, fentanyl poisoning has become the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.

 

- Nearly 100 known or suspected terrorists were  arrested  at the border last year—more than three times the total for the previous five years combined. Border arrests of illegal alien murderers  increased  by over 1,900% and arrests of illegal alien drug traffickers increased by 480% since 2020.

 

- Biden’s open border policy has also created a humanitarian crisis, with migrant deaths reaching a record  high  last year and human smuggling arrests  up  82% since 2014.

 

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Joe Biden has launched an illegal foreign invasion of our country allowing a record number of illegal aliens to storm across our borders. From all over the world, they came. Under Biden's current policies even though these millions of illegal border crossers have entered the country unlawfully, all of their future children will become automatic U.S. citizens. Can you imagine?

 

They'll be eligible for welfare, taxpayer-funded healthcare, the right to vote, chain migration, and countless other government benefits, many of which will also profit the illegal alien parents. This policy is a reward for breaking the laws of the United States and is obviously a magnet, helping draw the flood of illegals across our borders. 

 

They come by the millions and millions and millions. They come from mental institutions, they come from jails-- prisoners, some of the toughest, meanest people you'll ever see. The United States is among the only countries in the world that says that even if neither parent is a citizen nor even lawfully in the country, their future children are automatic citizens the moment the parents trespass onto our soil. As has been laid out by many scholars, this current policy is based on a historical myth, and a willful misinterpretation of the law by the open borders advocates. There aren't that many of them around. 

 

It's an amazing. Who wants this? Who wants to have prisoners coming into our country? Who wants to have people who are very sick coming into our country? People from mental institutions coming into our country? And come they will, they're coming by the thousands, by the tens of thousands. 

 

As part of my plan to secure the border on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship. It's things like this that bring millions of people to our country, and they enter our country illegally. My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.

 

They must go back. Nobody could afford this. Nobody could do this. And even morally it's so wrong. My order will also end their unfair practice known as birth tourism, where hundreds of thousands of people from all over the planet squat in hotels for their last few weeks of pregnancy to illegitimately and illegally obtain US citizenship for the child, often to later exploit chain migration to jump the line and get green cards for themselves and their family members. 

 

It's a practice that's so horrible, and so egregious, but we let it go forward. At least one parent will have to be a citizen or a legal resident in order to qualify. We will secure our borders and we will restore our sovereignty. Starting on Day One, our country will be great again. Our country will be a country again. We'll have borders, we'll have proper education, and we'll put America First. 

 

Thank you.

ICYMI: “Opinion: Trump showed that he can capably lead America and protect the unborn”

Read the op-ed from Iowa State Representative Shannon Lundgren  here .

Mar-a-Lago, FL—  President Donald J. Trump released the following video honoring America's heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice, titled "Honoring Those Who Gave All."

 

Watch the video here .