Former President Barack Obama spoke out Friday against President Donald Trump’s continued claims that he can end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who aren’t citizens. “That’s not how the Constitution of the United States works,” added Obama, who once taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. That’s not how our democracy works.”Obama is the latest person to strike down Trump’s repeated claims that he can end birthright citizenship, a right enshrined under the 14th Amendment. “We will keep the criminals, the drug dealers, we will keep them all out of our country,” he added. We will end finally birthright citizenship.”House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) has also challenged Trump’s claims, telling Kentucky’s WVLK radio station on Tuesday that the president “obviously cannot do that.”

Source: Huffington Post November 02, 2018 20:37 UTC