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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump offers snarkiest response ever to birthright citizenship loss: ‘I would like to congratulate President Xi’

Donald Trump has spent years railing at the Constitution’s principle of birthright citizenship and has sought to unilaterally redefine who gets to be an American.

But after the Supreme Court struck down his unconstitutional executive order to block automatic citizenship to the children of certain immigrant parents, the president seemed to believe he still has a shot in Congress — and then he thanked China’s president.

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