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1.  What is the actual change Trump wants to make to US citizenship policy?
 President Donald Trump says he wants to use an executive order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US to unauthorized immigrant parents.
2. What does the Constitution say about citizenship?
Current Supreme Court precedent (under the 1898 ruling known as Wong Kim Ark) holds that the children of noncitizens born in the United States are citizens.
3. How does Trump give false information about the US compared to the rest of the world about this issue?
Trump justified his desire for the new executive order with a lie about how common it is for a country to extend automatic citizenship to everyone born on its soil. (He claims the US is the only country that does this; in fact, more than 30 do.)
4. What steps would have to take place before Trump was ready to sign an executive order?
Trump and the critics of universal birthright citizenship are correct that the Supreme Court has never explicitly held, as a matter of law, that children of unauthorized immigrants born in the United States are citizens. (It has assumed that they are; in the 1985 case INS v. Rios-Pineda, in which the parent of two US-born children challenged his deportation order, the Court referred to the children as US citizens by birth. But because the Court didn’t make a formal legal finding in this regard, the statement was just dicta, or rhetoric.)
5. What did the Supreme Court decide in Wong Kim Ark?
the children of noncitizens born in the United States are citizens.
6. Why might the Trump Administration feel that INS v Rios Pineda gives him legal grounds to issue this EO?(It has assumed that they are; in the 1985 case INS v. Rios-Pineda, in which the parent of two US-born children challenged his deportation order, the Court referred to the children as US citizens by birth. But because the Court didn’t make a formal legal finding in this regard, the statement was just dicta, or rhetoric.)
7. Why might recent changes to the Supreme Court make the president confident that the SC would side with his actions?
That doesn’t mean the executive branch has the power to unilaterally clarify what the Supreme Court meant. In practice, Trump signing an executive order redefining birthright citizenship would be a way to bring the issue to the attention of the Supreme Court — doing what he wants, and daring a conservative court with two Trump-appointed justices to stop him.

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