Miller Mayer’s Steve Yale-Loehr on Birthright Citizenship

Steve was quoted by Salon.com in Experts Pour Cold Water on Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship—But Issue a Stark Warning. He said that ending birthright citizenship could affect U.S.-born children’s parents and other relatives, such as by potentially preventing officials from issuing passports and Social Security numbers or from providing welfare benefits to family members of those children. However, Steve noted that Trump has no viable legal pathway to repealing birthright citizenship because an executive order cannot repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution and any executive action he takes attempting to do so would “trigger immediate litigation.”