You still press forward with that? Absolutely. And listen, birthright citizenship is a policy that doesn't make any sense. And what we have right now is it is a magnet for illegal immigration. The current law has been that if someone crosses over here illegally and they have a baby, that that baby is automatically a U.S. citizen. That's not the case in most countries on earth. And it's bad policy. We should not be incentivizing people to break the law. (02:14–02:23)
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