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Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. Where do other countries stand?

Louis Parcho

BBC World Service

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The United States gives an automatic nationality to anyone born in the country, but this principle is not the rule in the world

President Donald Trump’s executive order to end citizenship in the United States in the United States has sparked many legal challenges and some concern among migratory families.

Nearly 160 years ago, the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution demonstrated the principle that anyone born in the country is an American citizen.

But as a campaign campaign against the numbers of migrants, Trump is seeking to refuse citizenship for immigrant children who are either in the country illegally or on temporary visas.

This step seems to have general support. A Emerson College poll suggests Many Americans return Trump more than his opposition to this.

But how is this compared to the laws of citizenship all over the world?

Citizenship around the world

Citizenship born, or Jus Soli (the right of the soil), is not the rule worldwide.

The United States is one of about 30 countries – most of them in the Americas – give up automatic citizenship to anyone born in their borders.

On the other hand, many countries in Asia, Europe and parts of Africa are committed to the Jus Sanguinis principle, where children inherit their nationality from their parents, regardless of their hometown.

Other countries have a mixture of both principles, also given citizenship to permanent population children.

A map showing that most countries in the Americas grant continuous citizenship; Many Asia, Central, Eastern Europe and Northeast Africa go through childbearing; Many South and West Africa and many Western European countries and Australia have mixed policies.

John Screenney, a professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, believes that although the newly born citizenship or Jos Soul is common throughout the Americas, “every nation has its unique way.”

He says, “For example, some of the slaves involved and former slaves, some of them did not do it. History is complicated,” he says. In the United States, the fourteenth amendment to address the legal status of the freed slaves has been adopted.

However, Mr. Skrntny argues that almost all of them was involved in “building a national state from a previous colony.”

He explains: “They had to be strategists about those who include them and those who excluded them, and how to make the nation -state to be governmentable.” “For many, the same path, based on its birth in the region, has achieved their goals in building the state.

“For some, immigration was encouraged from Europe; for others, it guaranteed that the indigenous people and former slaves, and their children, will be included as complete members, and they do not leave insecure. It was a special strategy for a certain time, and the same time may have passed.”

Changing the increasing policies and restrictions

In recent years, many countries have reviewed the laws of nationality, tightening or abolishing the nationality of births due to fears of immigration, national identity and the so -called “tourism” where people visit a country for birth.

India, for example, once automatic citizenship is given to anyone born on its soil. But over time, concerns about illegal immigration, especially from Bangladesh, led to restrictions.

Since December 2004, the child born in India is a citizen only if both parents are Indian, or if one of the parents is a citizen and the other is not considered an illegal immigrant.

Many African countries, which historically followed Jose Soleil under the legal systems in the colonial era, were later abandoned after independence. Today, at least most parents require a permanent citizen or resident.

Citizenship is more restricted in most Asian countries, as it is identified primarily through landing, as shown in countries such as China, Malaysia and Singapore.

Europe has also seen major changes. Ireland was the last country in the region that allowed the unrestricted zos Soleil.

The policy was canceled after an opinion poll conducted by June 2004, when 79 % of the voters agreed to a constitutional amendment that requires at least the father to be a permanent citizen, resident, or legal legal resident.

The government said that the change is required because foreign women were traveling to Ireland to give birth to obtaining the European Union’s passport for their children.

People on Reuters protest the ruling of the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic, which re -determined citizenship to exclude the children of immigrants who are not documented, and most of them are of Haiti. At the forefront, a young black girl sits with her arms, which a demonstrator raised prominently on the shoulders of someone.Reuters

The rights groups were afraid of the decision of the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip tens of thousands of nationality, most of them are of Haiti origin.

One of the most severe changes in the Dominican Republic occurred, as a constitutional amendment, in 2010, redefined citizenship to exclude the children of illegal immigrants.

This 2013 Supreme Court ruling issued this retroactive effect until 1929, when he stripped tens of thousands – most of them of Haiti origin – of their Dominican nationality. Rights groups have warned that this might leave many sexual dilemma, as they did not have Haitian leaves either.

This step has been widely convicted of international humanitarian organizations and the American Human Rights Court.

As a result of the general protest, the Dominican Republic approved a law in 2014 that established a system for granting citizenship to the children of immigrants born in Dominican, especially those related to the hallway.

Mr. Skrentny sees changes as part of a wider global direction. “We are now in the era of collective migration and the ease of transportation, even across the oceans. Now, individuals can also be strategists on nationality. For this reason we see this discussion in the United States now.”

Legal challenges

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President Trump is already facing legal challenges

Within hours of President Trump’s order, many lawsuits were filed by countries and cities run by Democrats, civil rights groups and individuals.

Two federal judges stood by the prosecutors, the last of which was the provincial judge, Dibora Burdman, in Maryland on Wednesday.

She stood with five pregnant women, who argued that depriving their children of the nationality of the United States’ constitution.

Most legal scientists agree that President Trump cannot end vertical citizenship with executive order.

“The constitutional expert and a professor of law at the University of Virginia said,” The constitutional expert and professor of law at the University of Virginia said. ” “This is not something that he can decide alone.”

It is now suspended because the case makes it through the courts.

It is not clear how the Supreme Court, as conservative judges form a superpower, will explode the fourteenth amendment if that comes.

Trump’s Ministry of Justice has argued that it only applies to permanent population. Diplomats, for example, exempt.

But others contradict that other American laws apply to immigrants that are not documented, so the fourteenth amendment must also be.

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2025-02-10 01:51:00

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