Donald Trump began his Presidential campaign by calling Mexican migrants criminals and rapists, he began his Presidency by signing an anti-Muslim travel ban, and he’s going into the midterms doing everything he can to gin up fears about immigrants. Along the way, his Administration has put DACA in limbo, instituted a policy of separating parents from children at the border, held children in cages, slashed the number of refugees the country takes in every year, and proposed making it harder for immigrants who receive public assistance to become legal residents. His has been an anti-immigrant Administration as much as it’s been anything else.
On Tuesday, Axios published portions of an interview its reporters recently conducted with Trump, in which the President asserted that he had the power to end birthright citizenship by executive order. “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” Trump said. Legal opinion is against Trump here—the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment reads, “All persons born or naturalized in…
