WASHINGTON, Jan 20 - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders declaring illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organizations, and targeting automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children of immigrants in the country illegally.
Trump also signed an order expected to suspend the U.S. refugee resettlement program for four months, although the text of the orders was not immediately available.
My understanding is that the courts have never actually ruled on the interpretation of the Constitution’s language, and that the “natural-born citizen” phrasing is vague. It may simply be an attempt to get the current Supreme Court to rule on it in a xenophobic way
Natural-born might be read as ‘born to naturalised parents’ but I don’t know much about US law except that the constitution offers unbound freedom to say anything you like unless the people that hear it don’t like it.
Having listened to enough 5-4 podcast, I would venture to bet that they’ll tie themselves in knots to justify exactly that line of reasoning, too.