Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump offered a dramatic, if legally dubious, promise in a new interview to unilaterally end birthright citizenship, ratcheting up his hardline immigration rhetoric with a week to go before critical midterm elections. Trump's vow to end the right to citizenship for the children of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on US soil came in an interview with Axios released Tuesday . Trump did not say when he would sign the order, and some of his past promises to use executive action have gone unfulfilled. And the President has warned of an "invasion" of undocumented immigrants if the border isn't sealed with a wall. Still, the threat of ending birthright citizenship amounts to another escalation in Trump's hardline approach to immigration, which has become his signature issue.

Source: CNN October 30, 2018 10:56 UTC