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Trump called out for 'bizarre' attempt to hack the 14th Amendment

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A self-described Libertarian is sounding the alarm that President Donald Trump's new effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment is "more bizarre" than most realize. David J. Bier, the director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, walked through the specifics of the new executive orders that President Donald Trump signed to challenge "The new birthright citizenship order is way more bizarre than anyone is saying," he wrote in a thread on X Friday. "1) The text requires agencies to deny CURRENT US CITIZENS citizenship docs if either parent ' IS' an alien enemy, foreign govt employee, regardless of their status at birth..." "Contrast with the first birthright order: they **deleted** the timing phrase to open the citizenship claims of current US citizens whose parents did not even fall into the excluded category at birth," he continued. It prompted him to pose the question: "Do they think they can take away people's citizenship?" "Strangely, this means that the order doesn't apply to ki