United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (17) was “very happy” with the agreement of the Supreme Court to hear the arguments about his plan to end citizenship by birth right.
The Supreme Court will hear the arguments of the case on May 15th.
Previous US presidents and courts, for over a century, read the 14th amendment of the American Constitution to ensure citizenship to anyone “born or naturalized in the United States”.
However, Trump campaigned to end the action and signed an executive order that would have prevented the government from issuing or accepting documents that recognize citizenship for people born in the US from foreign parents. Subsequently, the measure was taken by comprehensive lawsuits and injunctions.
Asked Thursday about the agreement of the Supreme Court to hear the arguments, Trump stated that citizenship by birth right “has to do with slavery”, seeming to bind the constitutional right to its context of the time of civil war. The 14th amendment was ratified in 1868.
“If you look like this, the case is easy to win. And I hope the lawyers talk about citizenship for birth and slavery, because that was what it was very positive, and they use it now, not for slavery. They use it for people who enter our country, come in and suddenly become citizens,” he said.
This content was originally published in Vitória to Trump: Supreme Court will hear case about citizenship in the US on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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