Washington • When Rep. Mia Love was born in Brooklyn, she became an instant citizen under a constitutional amendment that President Donald Trump now wants to toss.
Love, whose parents immigrated from Haiti and was the first member of her family to gain citizenship, said Tuesday she opposed Trump's plan to use his executive power to end what is known as birthright citizenship, a move that is legally fraught in that the Constitution's 14th Amendment protects that right.
"I have always opposed presidential attempts to change immigration law unilaterally,” Love said in a statement. “The Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to 'establish a uniform rule of naturalization' and the 14th Amendment makes the conditions of citizenship clear: individuals born in this country are citizens.