No country except US & Canada have birth right law.

Revoking birthright citizenship would spark a court fight over the president's unilateral ability to change an amendment to the Constitution. Dear DT why don't you abrogate the constitution written by our founders and revamp another one as per your desires...America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

Yes, will be good to revoke birthrights.

In fact, the powerful U.S. Congress has to pass this proposed controversial change pertaining to centuries old birth right citizenship U.S. law, as tabled by the racist, bigot and biased Donald Trump and his cunning, criminal and crooked cronies in Washington, D.C. to gain cheap publicity.

There's rampant abuse of birth citizenship here in the US. I agree with Trump on this.

@Khuram Nisar: there are at least 30 countries that give birthright citizenship!!

@Khuram Nisar Not correct UK and many more countries have this too

So what?

Awesome move , will help those having dreams of indirect citizenship through their children being born in the States stopped

President Trump is right, non-citizens abusing this law for their own benefit. Entering on Visit visa they are staying here on various fake grounds, till the birth of their child.After obtaining Birth Certificate & US passport they return to their country and at appropriate time they claim to be parents of US citizen and on the same ground asking for citizenship.

@Khuram Nisar You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?? Look up UK, France, Germany along with 100+ countries that have the same provisions in their laws. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing, You could've even Googled before posting an ignorant comment.

Each country should protect it's citizenship. Good but late awakening.

@Khuram Nisar not trur. Educate yourself

All those people supporting this idea should realise that this train won't stop there. Next, he will then issue orders to revoke birthright of legals who are not green card holders, followed by revoking their rights too. In the end, you will need to prove several generations of citizenship of the country before a newborn is eligible for citizenship. It's a slippery slope.

As usual every thing that this president talks about may have a legitimate basis but since his track record is so divisive and abhorrent everything that comes out of his mouth becomes controversial.

Better revoke, even bring the one which already there, as there are many who enter illegal, who stayed illegal and live illegal till the time, but their children are US national. Thats wrong for US and people of US.

@Khurran Nisar Pakistan also has birthright citizenship law. According to citizenship act 1951, anyone born in Pakistan will be considered a Pakistani Citizen.

This should be an eye opener for IK who wants to give citizenship to Afghan immigrants born in Pakistan.

@Khuram Nisar 30 other countries have such laws.

Good news!!!

@Khan UK does not have any such law as this.

That would be a right decision.

Although Republican candidates are sticking to the Trump doctrine in hopes of winning, from the political shows I have been watching Trump's candidates will lose Florida and several other states the Republicans won in the presidential election. The big issue with many Atlantic coast states from Maine to Florida is climate change.

@Khan. UK had stopped this practice

good move!

@Ash from the West Plz mention which countries ?

@Falcon1 sorry, no European country offers birthright citizenship .... look it up on the net ...

@Khuram Nisar you are wrong. Google and you will find a lot of countries that gives citizenship to any children born in that country

@Ash from the West ... the 30 countries list doesn't include any European nation ...

I will vote for it.....if each citizen of its country wants his country to be good for himself and his family, then why not my country be good to me and my family !!!

Not possible, needs constitutional amendment.

I am not a supporter of Trump, however, I believe that this law has been misused for a long time. People, who come here on work visas plan it in a way that they deliver their babies in the US and those babies then automatically become US citizens. US citizenship should only be granted to those babies whose parents are either legal residents or citizens of the US.

This should stop the Chinese pregnant women from traveling to US and delivering babies on Tourist Visa. They pay the doctors $25K or more and come to US around 8th month of their pregnancy, deliver the child, obtain the birth-certificate and then travel back to China/Taiwan/Hong Kong with the child. The child now is a US citizen. This must be abolished.

Can Trump sign end of birthright citizenship ordinance even though it is unconstitutional? Yes, he can. Having company with the worst dictators of the globe including the MBS, what else he can learn and get? Soon he will start the similar decree Raj in America too. We Americans have to used to adjust with the autocracy and dictatorship.

Very good step. It will solve the most of the problem US facing from illegal immigration.

@john No he cannot! Trump is a President of a Constitutional Republic and a Demcoracy. Not a King who can change things at will thru decrees. This would require constitutional amendment, which only the Congress can initiate and has to be ratified by the majority in the Senate. With mid-term elections next week and democrats poised to assume majority in both Congress and Senate, Trump's days may already be numbered, much less be able to change laws unlitaerally. Democrates will definetetly have him impeaced and send him packing soon.

@Falcon1 The law in the UK is not similar. Unlike US, only a child born to a legal resident is entitled th the citizenship rights.

@Mahmood - I'm a registered Democrat but Trump can not be impeached just because the Democrats in Congress may want to. There has to be concrete evidence that Trump willingly broke the law or that he is medically unfit to be President. So far, there's been nothing but hot air & I very much doubt that Mueller has anything on Trump either. Whether we like it or not, Trump will serve out his term and will have to be defeated at the polls.

@Veer Singh Considering at least a dozen ex-Trump campaign key figures have been either indicted or have been convicted or have admitted guilt so far, all related to illegal activities by Team-Trump, what more evidence do you think you need to say that all these people engaged in illegal acttivities, whether lying to the FBI, campaign finance violations, collaborations with the Russians or evasion of taxes, that can be attributed to Trump himself!? You are reading the wrong books it seems. Look up all the evidence that has so far come forward that led to the conviction of everyone somehow connected to Trump's Presidential campaign. Unless you believe that they all did it to please Trump, but Trump either had no knowledge of thei malfeasence or never authorized it? How about audio recordings, documentary evidence, money trail and so on and so fortth?? Mark my word, Trump, Trump Junior and his son in law will all end up in Jail, before he finishes his only term in office.

@Mahmood Well if we citizens voice our support then the politicians will have to support. These children will eat away my tax money. I don't want them here.

@Ash from the West Except Canada and USA, other countries are from South and Central America and none wants to take citizenship of those countries anyway. No developed country has it other than these two.

@Khuram Nisar Pakistan does!

This anchor baby is not new issue . Late Sen. Arizona ; Presidental hopefull also tinkered with . Hong Kong does not allow pregnant women to enter ; because it is rampant abuse too : local citizens don’t have Hospital beds for their population! One way or another: it will change! Perhaps illegal parents children and anchor baby will end soon ! Democrats themselves can not defend it due public outcry

@Khuram Nisar Far from commenting on Canada or the US, you obviously don't even know that your own country, Pakistan, grants Citzenship to a child born within the Pakistani territory. There are dozens of nations which have similar laws of naturalization or birth right laws. How else did all the Afghans living Pakistan for decades, managed to have their children get NADRA cards and Pakistani passports too??

@Malveros: here is the list of 30 countries: Antigua and Barbuda 2 Argentina 3 Barbados 4 Belize 5 Bolivia 6 Brazil 7 Canada 8 Chile 9 Cuba 10 Dominica 11 Ecuador 12 El Salvador 13 Fiji 14 Grenada 15 Guatemala 16 Guyana 17 Honduras 18 Jamaica 19 Mexico 20 Nicaragua 21 Panama 22 Paraguay 23 Peru 24 Saint Kitts and Nevis 25 Saint Lucia 26 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27 Trinidad and Tobago 28 United States 29 Uruguay 30 Venezuela @Monsieur: I never said the list included any European countries. What I said it’s not only US and Canada but many other countries that give birthright citizenship.

Agree with him this is the most abused right

A great move by a great leader.

The concept of birthright citizenship like all other abused rights had good intentions. But now, predominantly Russian and Chinese others are flying in to Vancouver, Toronto, and Florida to plant and anchor baby in the US. These are people who can afford to pay high costs in the US. In Canada, birthing costs are low but the they compete with locals for a hospital maternity berth. Could a Canadian do that in Beijing or Moscow--even on the possibility that great babies might settle there? "Birth and citizenship tourism" have become a commodity--for the adventurous and rich!

US citizenship as a birth right should be limited to birth of children born to legal residents including permanent refugee status persons and citizens. US government should prevent abuse of these constitutional rights.

@AXH : A small, private maternity care industry has grown around this birth tourism in Canada!

It is a good step for both USA and the outside world, for those in USA who don't want the immigration will have it their way, and for outside world it will stop the brain drain.

These rules have been misused heavily. Trump is just a reaction to the misuse.

Let us grant this man one thing . He doesn't care for public opinion if he feels that order is in interest of his country. This law is being misused by illegal migrations.

Asked about the legality of such an executive order, Trump said “they're saying I can do it just with an executive order”. The constitution does not allow the President the power to use executive power to overturn the citizenship of children born in the United States. Its time Trump learned the laws and what he can and cannot do as a President.

When it comes to the welfare of the country, Trump takes the gold. He puts USA above everything else and that is how an elected president should be. I whole heartedly support this move, because I have seen these people from the south of the border and overseas specially Chinese, Russians, Philippines, India and Pakistan, come here just to give birth and who bears the brunt of their medical bills ? People like us.

Every loop hole in a law is / will be exploited anywhere in the world. Nothing new. You may not agree with Trump on everything but you agree that he is not afraid to take corrective action.

@Khan UK & other european countries don't have brith right of citizenship for illegal parents.

@Skeptic are you day dreaming? Afghani and Bengali kids don't have any status in Pakistan although act 1951 supports it. Go to any Nadra office (or Union Council) and try to register birth certficate of illegal/refugee.

@Ash from the West No country except US and Canada gives citizenship to the kids of illegal parents

@Mahmood - There's no such thing as "guilt by association" under US law. If there is indeed hard evidence against Trump, we are yet to see it and there's no reason why Mueller wouldn't have made it public by now. Trump is not going to go away just because of your wishful thinking. And I got news for you, if the elections were held today, he would probably be re-elected.

@Mahmood sorry bro, he get another term. US still have sixty percent white voters who elected him to office disregard to his abilities and capacities. Republicans are master of vote fraud, Jerrimendering will make sure he gets another term, they have accomplished more behind his smoke screen and distraction then many decades in the past. All Obama initiatives shelved or overturned, many years of democrats hard work is wiped out, soon the court start squassquashing the constitutional amendments, where Republican activist are being appointed.

There is a point in his statement. While I and my wife are not citizens of US and on temporary visas, how could my child become a US citizen.

Good job done by Trump. Best President in the history of America who cares for America first.

@Dr. Salaria, Aamir Ahmad As usual you have no idea about America