President Trump says he might want to end birthright citizenship by executive order.

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So every day a new news cycle, there's a lot to talk about today as well.

Still more news in the aftermath of the Pittsburgh synagogue

shooting. Plus, the president of the United States has now unleashed a new controversy. He says

that he might want to sign an executive order getting rid of birthright citizenship for the

children of illegal immigrants. We'll talk about the legality of that and the policy considerations

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because every day a new controversy, that's the theme of today's America. The president of the

United States has now said in an interview that he is interested in signing an executive order

that would end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrant children.

So here is the way the law currently operates. If you come to the United States for virtually any purpose, unless you are a foreign diplomat, you come to the United States and you have a baby in the United States, that baby is automatically a citizen of the United States entitled to all rights and privileges conferred upon all citizens of the United States.

The reason that this is a controversial issue is because nothing in the Constitution actually says that this is the case.

Not only does nothing in the Constitution actually say that this is the case, there's pretty good evidence that the framers of the 14th Amendment

had no intent to do anything remotely

like this, suggests that just because you come to the United States and then you have a baby

here, your baby is now a United States citizen. And this does have some pretty significant

costs involved. Right now you have, in California, we've seen many stories about this.

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