US to end guarantee of birthright citizenship

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Tuesday’s elections, President Donald Trump is rushing out hardline immigration declarations, promises and actions as he tries to mobilize supporters to

- gress. His own campaign in 2016 concentrated on border fears, and

“This has nothing to do with elections,” the president insists. But his timing is striking.

Trump says he will send more than 5,000 military troops to

- fend against caravans of Central American migrants who are on foot hundreds of miles away. Tent cities would not resolve the mas- And most legal scholars say it would take a new constitutional amendment to alter the current one granting citizenship to anyone born in America.

with daily alarms and proclamations about immigration in tweets, interviews and policy announcements in the days leading up to elections that Democrats hope will give them at least partial control of Congress.

Trump and many top aides have long seen the immigration issue as the most effective rallying cry for his base of supporters. The presi-

an announcement about new actions at the border on Tuesday, but that was scrapped so he could travel instead to Pittsburgh, where 11 people were massacred in a

Between the shootings, the dead-

and the mail bomb scare targeting Democrats and a media organization, the caravan of migrants slowly trudging north had faded from front pages and cable TV.

But with well-timed interviews

Trump revived some of his hardest-line immigration ideas: - voke the right to citizenship for border to help stave off the caravans. The main caravan, still in south-

away — from the original 7,000 to about 4,000 — as a smaller group apparently hoped to join it.

Trump insists his immigration moves have nothing to do with politics, even as he rails against the caravans at campaign rallies.

“I’ve been saying this long before the election. I’ve been saying this before I ever thought of run-

News host Laura Ingraham in an

Critics weren’t buying it. “They’re playing all of us,” said