Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 14
End birthright citizenship
Never delivered“[paraphrase] Birthright citizenship is the biggest magnet for illegal immigration and it will end.”
- Promised
- , Immigration position paper and NBC "Meet the Press"
- Stated deadline
- “reportedly by executive order”
- Re-promised
- 10 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Immigration
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Trump said in an Axios interview on October 30, 2018 that he would sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship. No such order was issued during the first term and the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee remained in force. PolitiFact rated the promise broken.