*Constitution grants citizenship to any person born in the country event if parents are foreigners
*Experts say fear is Trump’s strategy to get immigrants to return to their countries
*According to jurists eliminating birthright citizenship is something very difficult to do
*Experts say fear is Trump’s strategy to get immigrants to return to their countries
*According to jurists eliminating birthright citizenship is something very difficult to do
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00:00And the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, returned to threaten undocumented
00:04immigrants this time in his most recent statements, where he affirmed that he will eliminate birthright
00:09citizenship.
00:10For New York, our correspondent, Henrique Camelo, with details.
00:16Restricting immigration at any cost, even through fear, is what experts believe the
00:21most recent statements made by Donald Trump in his first interview after being elected
00:26president to the NBC channel, where he ratified his promise to eliminate birthright citizenship.
00:33You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one.
00:36Is that still your plan?
00:37Yeah, absolutely.
00:40The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution automatically grants citizenship to anyone
00:45born in the country, even if their parents are not citizens.
00:49For legal scholars, the path to eliminating birthright citizenship will be difficult,
00:54but not impossible.
01:00He would have to get a supermajority in both chambers.
01:06He would need at least 38 of the 50 states in the nation to approve that change.
01:11And that is very difficult.
01:12It is not impossible, but it is very difficult.
01:21Well, that's not right, because his family, where he comes from, was also an immigrant.
01:32What is he talking about?
01:33I don't think it's right.
01:38I don't want to be breaking up families.
01:40So the only way not to break up the family is to keep them together.
01:44And you have to send them all back.
01:50Donald Trump is a racist.
01:55The policies he made in his first term as president and also the proposals he made during
01:59his campaign are racist proposals, based on an exclusion and an idea of who really belongs
02:09and deserves to be here, and who does not.
02:15According to legal experts, fear seems to be Trump's strategy to get immigrants to return
02:20to their countries voluntarily.
02:26His main weapon is not really what happens, but the feeling it creates, the feeling of
02:34fear, the feeling of panic.
02:39He knows the fragility, the emotional delicacy of immigrants.
02:46Therefore, the call is to remain calm and united.
02:53It is not very likely that he will achieve that, but what he does achieve is to damage
02:58the relationship between immigrants and the people who live here.
03:07Trump will once again be up against the ropes, since eliminating birthright citizenship,
03:12according to jurists, is something very difficult to do.
03:15So we will see what will be his trick up his sleeve as of January 20th.