Billionaire businessman Donald Trump wants to stop automatically giving U.S. citizenship to anyone who is born in the United States.
Mr. Trump is the leading Republican presidential candidate（候选人）. He says automatic citizenship is the reason many women come to the United States illegally and give birth. He wants to cancel the 14th Amendment（修正案） to the U.S. Constitution, which says "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" are citizens.
In five months, voters in some states will begin choosing the Republican Party's presidential nominee（被提名人）. All of the seventeen Republican candidates have called for strong measures to stop people from entering the country illegally, especially from Mexico. But not all of them support ending automatic citizenship for people born in the United States.
The Center for Immigration Studies seeks to limit immigration to the United States. It says 30 of the world's 194 countries give citizenship to people born in their country. But the United States and Canada are the only two developed countries that do so. Some foreign women are entering the United States as what it calls "birth tourists." They are giving birth to 36,000 babies yearly so that their children can become American citizens.
Automatic citizenship for those born in the United States has been part of the country's laws since the colonies declared their independence from England in the late 1700s. But in 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the children of slaves were not American citizens. The Constitution was amended after the Civil War in the 1860s. Anti-slavery northern states defeated pro-slavery southern states in the war. The Constitution was changed to make it clear that all black Americans and freed slaves were U.S. Citizens.
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