Immigration the Trump card for midterms

US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has strengthened his anti-immigration stance ahead of the midterm elections by declaring that he plans to end the right to citizenship for babies of noncitizens and unauthorized immigrants born in the United States. People's Daily overseas edition comments:

Since he took office, Trump has constantly been tightening US immigration policies. This time he is targeting birthright citizenship.

The biggest obstacle to this will undoubtedly be the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which passed in 1868 grants all people born in the country US citizenship. It was in 1898 that an ethnic Chinese, who was born and grew up in California but was rejected entry when he traveled back from a trip to China, took the US government to court and won the case. Since then, all people born in the US have been granted US citizenship.