US President-elect Donald Trump has said that he will abolish the birthright citizenship rule on the day he takes office.

The rule that gives US citizenship by birth on American soil will no longer exist. With Trump’s decision, concerns have increased among immigrants in the US.

Trump is taking the oath of office on January 20, 2025. The number of legal and illegal immigrants to the US has long been a topic of debate. Trump had raised this issue during his election campaign.

There are different rules for obtaining citizenship in the world. There is a law that automatically considers a person born on American soil to be an American citizen. After the Civil War, the US Congress enacted this rule in 1868. The rule was introduced to grant citizenship to everyone, including black people, who arrived in the US.

At that time, a provision was implemented to automatically grant citizenship to children born in the US. The rule does not matter whether the parents of such children are legal or illegal in the US.

This rule was originally introduced to make it easier for people who were brought to the United States as slaves.

Donald Trump and his supporters have been saying that the law that made it easier to grant citizenship to slaves is being misused. Therefore, they have been demanding new and strict laws for becoming American citizens.