United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared on social media the transcript of comments made by an American political commentator about birthright citizenship in the US that described India as being among “hellhole” countries.
The comments were made by Michael Savage, an author and political commentator, on US-based TV channel Newsmax after hearings in the US Supreme Court about the case pertaining to birthright citizenship.
Trump has long been a proponent of ending birthright citizenship in the US. In January 2025, Trump signed an executive order to stop automatically granting citizenship to those born in the US in specific scenarios.
Legal consensus, however, broadly holds that the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship. The matter is being heard by the Supreme Court.
Savage said that the arguments should not be conducted “in the abstract of a courtroom” as the demand to revoke birthright citizenship was “really not about law” but rather about public opinion.
The political commentator said that the US Constitution, which guarantees birthright citizenship, had been written before air travel, and questioned “how relevant are some of these arguments when people are coming here by airplane in the ninth month of their pregnancy”.
“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from...
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