Steve was quoted by the Miami Herald in Can U.S. Citizens Be Deported? El Salvador Offers to Take American Criminals, Rubio Says. He said, “Natural-born U.S. citizens maintain their citizenship through the Fourteenth Amendment. Just as President Trump can’t eliminate birthright citizenship by himself, so too the U.S. government cannot deport U.S. citizens, even if they have committed crimes. Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens could be deported.”