Shortly after his swearing in as the United States President, Donald Trump signed an executive order, with the provision of ‘citizenship according to birth’. Soon after, many social media users claimed that the executive order specifically targeted Indians, and “children born to Indian couples would not be eligible for automated USA citizenship”. However, the post was found to be misleading in an investigation by the PTI Fact Czech desk. The executive order to end birth appreciated citizenship in the US is not for immigrants, despite the country, and especially for Indians.
Trump signed an executive order curbing several immigration laws, including congenital citizenship that provides automatic American citizenship to anyone born in the country, contrary to the 14th amendment of the US Constitution. The executive order signed by Trump states that a child born in the country will be given only American citizenship if at least one parent is an American citizen, an American card holder or a member of the US Army.
Within a few hours of signing an executive order to end the birthright citizenship for those children within a few hours, those who were decreased in the legal status of parents, sued them by immigrant and civil rights advocates. Was filed, including the American Civil Liberty Union.
Claim
On January 21, an X (East Twitter) user shared a post, claiming that children born to Indian couples in the United States would not be eligible for automated American citizenship.
Post caption, which has received 629k ideas so far, read: “Children born to Indian couples will not be eligible for automatic USA citizenship. Donald Trump. NRIS should return to India in protest and contribute to Amritcol Needed.”
Here is the link and collection link for the post and bottom and a screenshot below.
Investigation
The desk discovered a keyword on Google and found that many other users had shared the same claim. Two such posts can be seen here and here, and their stored versions can be found here and here respectively.
In the next part of the investigation, the desk reviewed the end of the end of birth appreciative citizenship and reviewed the executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
“The privilege of citizenship of the United States is not automatically expanded to individuals born in the United States: (1) when the mother of that person, when the mother of that person is not extended to the United States’ categories and not under its jurisdiction. The state and father were not unitedly unitedly unitedly unitedly unitedly united, the United States was not a citizen or legitimate permanent resident of the United States, or at the time of the person’s birth, or (2) when the person’s mother’s presence in the United States that person in the United States The birth of the birth was valid, but temporary (eg, eg, but it is not limited, under the aegis of the visa discount program or to visit the United States to go on a student, work, or tourism visa) and the father Said that at the time of the birth of a person, the United States was not a citizen or legitimate permanent resident, “read the order.
Here is a link to the document and the screenshot of the same is below.
The document also mentions: “The sub -section (A) of this section will only apply to individuals who are born within the United States 30 days after the date of this order.”
Below is a screenshot that exposes the same.
On conducting another set of Google’s customized keyword discovery for further relevant media reports, the desk came in a report of CBS News on 20 January, which is read in the headline: “Trump has done executive functions and memo on day 1 Indicated ”
One part of the report mentions: “Trump also shifted to eliminate the long interpretation of the 14th amendment, signing an order to the federal agencies to deny the innate citizenship to the children of the parents. There are unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders who signed an order for. The US government has long interpreted the 14th amendment of the Constitution, regardless of the immigration status of its parents, as the right to citizenship for people born on American earth. ,
Here the link to the report is given and the screenshot of the same is below.
Another report of The Indian Express took place on 22 January, read in the title: “Trump signs an executive order to end American birthright. Can he do so?” This report discussed the number of immigrants and children who may be affected by the order.
“According to 2024 data by the Pew Research Center, the US foreign-population reached a record 47.8 million in 2023, an increase of 1.6 million from last year. This is the largest annual growth in more than 2000 years since 2000. , Mexico was the top country of birth for migrants coming in the previous year, with about 150,000 people (about 145,000) and China (about 90,000) immigrants were the next largest sources of immigrants. Read a section of the report.
Here the link to the report is given and the screenshot of the same is below.
Subsequently, the desk concluded that the executive order to abolish the birthright in the US was for illegal migrants, not especially for Indians.
Claim: Children born to Indian couples in the United States will not be eligible for automated American citizenship.
fact: The executive order to abolish birth appreciative citizenship in the US can affect many migrants, not only Indians.
conclusion: Many social media users claimed that the Executive Order signed by US President Donald Trump ended the provision of ‘Citizenship by Birth’ to eliminate the provision of ‘Citizenship’. In its investigation, the desk found that the executive order to abolish birthright in the US could affect many immigrants, not only Indians.
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(This story was originally published by PTI, and was reinstated by NDTV as part of Shakti collective)
