President Joe Biden said on Sunday he thought it was awful that President-elect Donald Trump was trying to do away with birthright citizenship in the United States.
Trump told NBC last month he plans to take executive action on his first day in office to try to end birthright citizenship, which confers citizenship on anyone born in the U.S. regardless of their parents' immigration status.
"The idea we're going to change a constitutional birthright — if you're born in the country ... you're not a citizen? What's going on?" Biden asked while speaking to reporters at the White House.
Biden, a Democrat, criticized Trump, a Republican, for encouraging lawmakers not to vote for a bipartisan immigration bill Biden supported to strengthen border enforcement. "It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous," Biden said.
Trump used immigration as a key issue to rally his base in the 2024 election, which he won, prevailing over Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat presidential nominee.
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