00:00So legally, we have reached the end of the road when it comes to President Trump's executive order attempting to
00:08narrow access to birthright citizenship.
00:10However, he can start over.
00:12If he chooses, he can issue a slightly different executive order, having already reviewed the court's decision.
00:23I do not expect him to do that.
00:26I think instead he will turn to using today's decision as a political weapon in which he shows his supporters
00:37that he carried through on the promise that he made on the campaign trail to narrow access to birthright citizenship
00:46and that he was stymied only by the justices of the Supreme Court.
00:52President Trump and senior members of his administration have repeatedly claimed that the United States is unique in granting citizenship
01:03at birth to children regardless of the citizenship or immigration status of their parents, and they are absolutely wrong on
01:11that issue.
01:12Birthright citizenship, because of birth within a nation, is actually quite common in the Americas.
01:21It is highly unusual in Europe, but in North America and Central America and South America, the United States is
01:30well within the norm.
01:32This is a common way of granting citizenship that goes back several centuries, and it's very much the countries that
01:42exist in the Americas were populated after the native inhabitants were largely killed and pushed off of their territories.
01:53And the newly formed countries needed to grow their populations and wanted to do that by having an expansive citizenship
02:03regime that is focused on granting citizenship to those children born within their territories.
02:36the nation on the international countries.
02:39You
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