Trump pushes to end birthright citizenship in US, says it was ‘for slaves, not rich’

US President Donald Trump has argued that the principle of birthright citizenship was introduced to protect the children of enslaved people, and not, as he claimed, for “wealthy foreigners” traveling to the country to give birth.In an interview with Politico, Trump defended the executive order he signed on his first day back in the White House in January 2025, which sought to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States.
He warned that it would be “devastat