Washington - Former US President Donald Trump has returned to his call to revoke US citizenship from some people born in the United States .
Trump's campaign for the 2024 White House announced Tuesday that he will seek to end birthright citizenship through an executive order on his first day in office.
Most experts agree that the president does not have the power to terminate citizenship through an executive order, but
Trump announced his plan on the 125th anniversary of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court case that established the constitutional right to citizenship at birth.
The proposal found a lot of response from immigration regulators, drawing criticism from immigration advocates and legal experts.
Most experts agree that the president does not have the power to terminate citizenship through executive order, primarily because the practice is enshrined in the Constitution.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution grants citizenship to those “born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to jurisdiction thereof.”
The widely accepted interpretation of this amendment — that it applies to children born in the United States regardless of the parents' immigration status — has been held since 1898 in a Supreme Court case involving a US citizen of Chinese parents.
The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted after the Civil War to guarantee equal rights to former slaves.
Immigration opponents argue that the amendment excludes members of other groups, such as illegal immigrants, from its benefits.
Members of the Reconstruction Convention in 1866 explained that the narrow exception to birthright citizenship applied only to children of diplomats and those born into Native American tribes, who were subject to the “jurisdiction” of a separate sovereign and need not comply, writes Amanda Frost, a University of Virginia law professor and author You Are Not American: Stripping Citizenship from Dred Scott to Dreamers.
By contrast, immigrants and their children living in the United States are subject to all federal and state laws or face criminal and civil penalties, and are therefore "completely subject" to the "jurisdiction" of the nation.
According to the Trump campaign, the executive order would "clarify the clear meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment," which provides that children of foreign nationals born in the United States are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States as defined in the Constitution.
During Trump's presidency, a draft executive order to that effect circulated, and the idea was revived shortly after Trump lost President Biden in the 2020 election.
DeSantis warns of the bankruptcy of the United States : Florida
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Republican candidate for the US presidency, said that the "debt deal" will not save the United States from bankruptcy, but rather will make it worse.
"I can tell you that our country was leaning toward bankruptcy before the debt deal, and it will continue in that direction thereafter," the governor added at a rally in Iowa.
A Republican deputy warns McCarthy of losing his position after agreeing on the debt ceiling
He added that the $4 trillion in increases, which are said to be coming in the next year and a half, is a massive amount of spending.
About 25 of the 222 Republicans in the House declared that they would not support the deal reached by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy with US President Joe Biden on raising the debt ceiling to avoid default.
For his part, McCarthy said on Sunday that he is not worried about losing his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives after some Republicans rejected his deal with Biden.
On Saturday, US President Joe Biden, for the Democratic Party, and Speaker of Parliament from the Republican Party, Kevin McCarthy, reached an agreement in principle to raise the debt ceiling for two years and add new spending limits in the same period.
The initial agreement is currently being presented to the House of Representatives and the Senate, and has been subject to heavy criticism from both sides. The United States is still just days away from the June 5 deadline to run out of funds to pay its bills and avoid default, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned.
Last week, DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign, joining former President Donald Trump and several other prominent Republicans in the party's primary race.
Mevlut Cavusoglu and Anthony Blinken discuss the grain deal and Sweden's membership in NATO
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed with his US counterpart Anthony Blinken the grain deal and Sweden's accession to NATO.
And according to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, "Today (Tuesday), a phone call took place between Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken."
The Foreign Ministry added that "during the talks, they discussed preparation for the meeting of the strategic mechanism for cooperation in the field of defense industries, the attack on the "Turkish House" in New York, the process of Sweden's accession to NATO and the Istanbul agreement on grain."
" Centcom" Commander of the Central District of the US Army in Israel for evaluation
The commander of the US Army's Central Command, "Centcom", Michael Korella, arrived in Israel on Tuesday morning, on a visit to assess the situation as part of the "crushing fist" exercise.
The visit came to the headquarters of Intelligence Unit 504, affiliated to the Military Intelligence Authority.
During the visit, the recent operations carried out by the unit, which contributed significantly to Israel's security, were reviewed.
An operational symposium was also held, chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, during which the leaders discussed issues of cooperation with the US army.
The Commander of the Central Command of the US Army, "Centcom", Michael Korella, attended the situation assessment session within the framework of the "crushing fist" maneuver, where it was explained how the exercise tested the defense army's readiness to deal with the outbreak of a battle in a number of arenas simultaneously, and dealt with innovative fighting methods and appropriate military capabilities. Focusing on the operational partnership with the US Army.
The Israeli army also announced, earlier, the launch of a military exercise it called the "crushing fist", which will last two weeks, at the level of the military command.
US Department of Defense : A Chinese fighter performs a hostile maneuver near a US military aircraft
The US Department of Defense announced on Tuesday that a Chinese fighter jet carried out an "unnecessarily aggressive" maneuver near a US military aircraft over the South China Sea in international airspace.
The US military command responsible for the Indo-Pacific region said in a statement that the Chinese J-16 carried out the exercise last week, and the US RC-135 was forced to fly during the turbulence that followed.
Last December, a Chinese military aircraft came within 10 feet (3 meters) of a US Air Force plane and forced it to perform evasive maneuvers to avoid collision in international airspace.
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