Posts Falsely Question Barron Trump’s Citizenship Status

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take President-elect Donald Trump has called for an interpretation of the 14th& Amendment that would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents in the country illegally. That has prompted some on social media to wrongly speculate that under such a policy, Trump’s son Barron might not be a U.S. citizen because his mother wasn’t a citizen when he was born in New York. & Full Story During his recent campaign, President-elect Donald Trump proposed measures to restrict immigration, including ending automatic citizenship for children born to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, as we’ve written. It was a promise that Trump first made as a candidate in 2016, but failed to deliver as president. In a 2023 campaign video, Trump reiterated his intention to challenge the 14th Amendment, which states that “all persons” born on U.S. soil are U.S. citizens. “As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will...