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.

Sources

  1. End birthright citizenship PolitiFact Trump-O-Meter, Jul 15, 2020