US President-elect Donald Trump has revealed the agenda that he plans to pursue after taking the oath of office as President. Trump has once again reiterated his plan to expel illegal immigrants living in America and also about taking steps to protect Dreamers immigrants, who came to America in childhood and do not have any documents. In an interview with NBC News, Trump said that he would end the right to get American citizenship at birth on the very first day of his office.

However, Trump also said, “I don’t want to be breaking up families, so the only way you don’t break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back.” That would mean expelling legal US citizens—ostensibly so that their families are not separated. Trump argues that this policy encourages illegal immigrants to give birth in the US so their children can become US citizens.

Birthright citizenship is a legal principle that grants citizenship to anyone born on the country’s soil, regardless of the legal status of their parents. The United States is among 34 countries that recognise this practice. This right is enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which was ratified in 1868. The amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and........

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