GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.

“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.

Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    Or just deny travel visas to pregnant women, add in an investigation for people who aren’t living in the US but have a baby here. If you are really worried about that, there are better ways than wholesale removal. It just doesn’t really seem like a problem.

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      41 year ago

      deny travel visas to pregnant women

      Right, cause that’s a situation we really want to give CBP power over… pregnancy tests for all women at the border? Pregnant women who can’t travel for business anymore? At that point, just make us 2nd class citizens and get it over with.

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        At that point, just make us 2nd class citizens and get it over with.

        Oh don’t worry, they’re working on that already.