Trump claims the US is the only country with birthright citizenship. He's full of shit

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As the Supreme Court prepared to hear arguments Thursday on whether to allow President Donald Trump's restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect, he falsely claimed on Truth Social that the United States is the only country that offers such a right.

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Here's a closer look at the facts.

TRUMP, discussing birthright citizenship in a Truth Social post: “The United States of America is the only Country in the World that does this, for what reason, nobody knows.”

THE FACTS: This is not true. About 30 countries, including the U.S., offer unconditional birthright citizenship, according to the CIA World Factbook and the Library of Congress. Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the Constitution after the Civil War to ensure that formerly enslaved people would be citizens.

“The statement is pretty obviously wrong,” said Ilya Somin, a professor of law at George Mason University who is an expert on constitutional law and migration rights. “Many countries have birthright citizenship, though in some of them the rules are different from those in the US.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-focus-trump-claims-us-201501633.html

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1. Birthright citizenship was in the Constitution from the beginning

Every other way of acquiring citizenship is through laws under the Naturalization powers of Congress. (Ignoring those who acquired citizenship when the Constitution was ratified.)

[Aristus]

2. Thirty-seven other countries, IIRC.

Of course, he probably thinks they're all 'shit hole' countries.