Trump's House GOP allies push birthright citizenship bill after progressive fury at presidential order

EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans are moving to backmost up President Donald Trump’s enforcement bid limiting birthright citizenship arsenic it faces an expected flurry of ineligible challenges. 

House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Brian Babin, R-Texas, is readying to present a caller measure connected the contented this week, Fox News Digital was told, with much than 20 GOP lawmakers already signing connected to co-sponsor the effort.

Babin told Fox News Digital that helium saw an contented some with radical coming implicit the U.S.-Mexico borderline illegally and having children here, and wealthier foreigners coming to the U.S. conscionable to person children, colloquially known arsenic "birth tourism."

"It's going to person a immense interaction connected our migration strategy due to the fact that it's going to adjacent loopholes that exploit birthright citizenship, and discourage amerciable migration and extremity the misuse of this really, this wholly misinterpreted privilege," Babin said. "I don't privation anyone saying that I americium opposed to immigration. My ancestors immigrated arsenic well. I person a daughter-in-law…she is from Brazil, joined my my son, and she is simply a arrogant U.S. citizen. But she did it the ineligible way. And we cannot proceed to person this abuse."

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Minutes aft being sworn successful connected Monday, Trump got to enactment signing dozens of enforcement orders, from measures repealing Biden medication policies connected clime and sex to renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" arsenic the "Gulf of America."

But ending the existent birthright citizenship argumentation successful the U.S. has been wide seen arsenic 1 of the astir controversial, if not legally tenuous, enforcement actions Trump has taken truthful far.

Multiple progressive groups pounced connected the bid conscionable hours aft it got the president’s signature, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

ACLU enforcement manager Anthony Romero said Trump’s determination was "unconstitutional" and "a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values."

Babin said, "I invited this suit due to the fact that we person to get this into the U.S. Supreme Court. It's astir apt going to instrumentality respective years for this to upwind its mode done the tribunal system. But we privation the U.S. Supreme Court to regularisation connected this and springiness america a last ruling, due to the fact that it has been misinterpreted."

Like Trump’s order, his measure would bounds birthright citizenship to babies calved with astatine slightest 1 genitor who is simply a U.S. citizen, lawful imperishable resident, oregon a lawful non-citizen serving successful the U.S. military. It would exclude children calved to amerciable immigrants oregon parents connected impermanent visas. 

At the bosom of the statement is whether the Constitution grants birthright citizenship to anyone calved connected U.S. soil.

The citizenship clause of the Constitution reads, "All persons calved oregon naturalized successful the United States, and taxable to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

The longstanding mentation of unrestricted birthright citizenship comes from the 1898 Supreme Court determination successful United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which said "a kid calved successful the United States, of parents of Chinese descent, who, astatine the clip of his birth, are subjects of the Emperor of China, but person a imperishable domicile and residence successful the United States" was a lawful U.S. citizen.

But opponents of that interpretation person pointed to different Western countries similar France and the United Kingdom, wherever citizenship hinges connected astatine slightest 1 genitor already being a imperishable resident. 

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While signing the bid connected Monday night, Trump dismissed concerns of a ineligible challenge.

"It's ridiculous. We're the lone state successful the satellite that does this with birthright, arsenic you know. And it's conscionable perfectly ridiculous. But, you know, we'll accidental we deliberation we person precise bully grounds. Certain radical person wanted to bash this for decades," Trump told reporters.

But having a measure clarifying boundaries for the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause would undoubtedly springiness Trump much coagulated ineligible standing.

Babin is not expected to present his authorities arsenic a law amendment, fixed his disagreement not with the substance itself but alternatively the mentation of the 14th Amendment and the 1898 Supreme Court opinion.

Introducing it arsenic an amendment could connote that the words successful the Constitution themselves were thought to beryllium flawed, Fox News Digital was told.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House for remark connected whether Trump would motion specified a bill.