Trump targets illegal immigration, cartels, ‘birthright citizenship’ with executive orders
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed executive orders declaring illegal immigration at the US-Mexico border a national emergency, designating criminal cartels as terrorist organizations and aiming to grant automatic citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the US illegally. FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney talks to University of Virginia law professor Amanda Frost about the legal hurdles the measures could face at the state and federal level.
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