Trump Officials Face Backlash for Citing White Supremacist Arguments in Push to End Birthright Citizenship

Source: International Business Times

The administration of President Donald Trump is facing a new wave of criticism after legal scholars and advocates accused government lawyers of leaning on arguments rooted in white supremacist and anti-Chinese racism in their bid to narrow birthright citizenship. At the center of the dispute is the administration's effort to reinterpret the Citizenship Clause, which says that all persons born in the U. S.