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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Wednesday that he is seriously considering ending the right to American citizenship by birth, an old promise of his election campaign that the Democratic opposition and many experts consider unconstitutional.

"We are thinking of (ending) citizenship by birth very seriously," Trump said in statements to reporters before embarking on a trip to the state of Kentucky.

"Frankly, it's ridiculous ... You have a baby in our country, that is, you cross the border, you have a baby and 'congratulations, the baby is now a US citizen," he added.

Trump already promised to end that right when he was competing for the White House in 2016, and last October, during the campaign of legislative elections in the US, the president recovered the idea and assured that he would sign a decree to implement it, something he did not finally do.

The Democratic opposition then reminded him that a constitutional reform would be necessary to achieve that objective, given that this right is protected by the fourteenth amendment of the Magna Carta, approved in 1868 to grant the status of citizen to freed African-American slaves.

That amendment states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and therefore subject to their jurisdiction, are US citizens and the state in which they reside."

The Supreme Court supported that right for the children of immigrants in 1898 , but the White House stressed last October that the highest judicial instance had never ruled on the issue in cases where the applicant's parents were undocumented.

Trump did not clarify on Wednesday if his plan to end that right would be based exclusively on his executive power, but if he were to try by decree, that measure would surely trigger a judicial battle that would end in the Supreme.

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