US President Signs Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship.

The 47th president of the United State, Donald Trump on the first day in Oval office signed new executive orders in effort to make America great again and fulfill promises made to his supporters during the campaign.
One of such orders is tackling the definition of birthright citizenship, to another declaring illegal immigration at the border a national emergency.
Birthright citizenship refers to an approach whereby anyone born on American soil is considered a citizen at birth, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
During his inaugural address, Trump vowed that “all illegal entry will be halted” and that millions of “criminal aliens” would be deported.
He also signed a proclamation that gave officials the authority to “repel, repatriate, or remove” migrants until he was satisfied that “the invasion at the southern border has ceased”.
Trump appears to be seeking to change the rules so that that the children of undocumented migrants living in the US will no longer automatically be considered US citizens. It would not apply retrospectively. BBC reported.
Exactly how he intends to achieve this is unclear, however, because birthright citizenship is enshrined in the constitution and would require a two-thirds vote in both chambers of Congress to change.
However he has instructed federal agencies to stop issuing documentation to children born in the US to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas, which could effectively deny them access to public services.
Advocacy group the American Civil Liberties Union (ALCU) immediately said it was suing the Trump administration over the order. “Denying citizenship to US-born children is not only unconstitutional – it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values,” it said in a statement.
The new administration has also moved to swiftly scrap CBP One, a mobile application used by migrants to book appointments to appear at a port of entry.
Biden administration officials had credited the app with helping reduce the number of detentions at the border since it was first introduced in January 2023. It was the only legal pathway to request asylum at the US-Mexico border.
Now, the Customs and Border Protection website notes that the app is “no longer available”.
App users also now are shown a message noting that “existing appointments scheduled through CBP One are no longer valid”.
According to CBS, the BBC’s US partner, the Biden administration had scheduled roughly 30,000 appointments via CBP One for migrants to enter the US in the next three weeks.
Other estimates had suggested that as many as 270,000 migrants were in Mexico waiting for an opportunity to enter the US using CBP One.
In the Mexican border city of Tijuana, some migrants reported feeling defeated and deflated after learning of CBP One’s demise.
“I hope God touches his [Trump’s] heart,” said Oralia, a Mexican woman who fled cartel violence in her home state along with her epileptic son. “We really do need the help.”
She had been waiting for an appointment through CBP One for seven months.
Among his other day-one moves, Trump ordered a shutdown of another Biden-era initiative, which allowed up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to fly to the US per month. Like the CBP One app, it was designed to lower the numbr of illegal crossings.
Immigration advocacy groups have reacted furiously to Trump’s various orders.
As well as the criticism from the ACLU, the president and CEO of the National Immigration Forum said the orders were “disappointing but not surprising”.
“The expected orders would separate families and weaken our economy,” Jennie Murray’s statement continued. “They do not uphold American values.”
Greisa Martinez Rosas, the executive director of United We Dream – a national immigrant youth organisation – said that the orders show that the administration “will spend the next four years actively trying to destroy our lives”.
“Trump’s pledges to carry out mass raids and deportations will have devastating consequences on communities nationwide, leaving millions of families and individuals in disarray if immediate action is not taken by our elected officials to publicly fight back,” she added.