Commentary: Trump has zero authority to end birthright citizenship

I believe there is merit in analyzing the wisdom of America’s continued acceptance of birthright citizenship. It is a fair topic for a reasoned national conversation whether a person’s mere birth inside the U.S. territorial borders should automatically confer citizenship upon that person when the parents of that person are only within those borders as the exclusive consequence of illegal conduct. (I acknowledge that it is not politically fashionable to label the millions of people cu