President Trump in Murphysboro, Ill. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)On Tuesday, President Trump said he will try to end the right to U.S. citizenship for babies born in the United States to noncitizens. At least 30 countries subscribe to the principle of jus soli, wherein a person’s citizenship is based on the territory of his or her birth. Jus soli is law in Canada, the United States and nearly every country in South and Central America. Sociologist John Skrentny theorized that jus soli is strongest in the Western Hemisphere because of the region’s colonial history. In Japan, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Koreans have lived without citizenship rights for decades.

Source: Washington Post October 30, 2018 16:18 UTC