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Hannah Postel: Duke Students, Legal Scholars React to Trump’s Executive Order Banning Birthright Citizenship
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The order states that automatic citizenship will no longer be granted to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrant parents or of those in the country legally on temporary visas, such as student, tourist and work visas. Born in Connecticut to immigrant parents from India, Gor said that he has lived his entire life in the country as a citizen, and views birthright citizenship as “part of the fabric of America.” She explained that removing birthright citizenship could aggravate the current immigration system by creating a larger population of undocumented immigrants who would be unable to “regularize their status.”