GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.

“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.

Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.

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    Actually, the entrance itself I don’t have a problem with. When you’re entering the political world out of nowhere, you need to make an attention-grabbing entrance. Trump did that in spades.

    The problem is that he immediately followed that up with the most racist announcement of a presidential run in the country’s history, and just got worse from there.

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      Which was literally copy paste from my racist extended families’ Facebook posts. Which is why they fell in fucking Lust after him (he’s just like me frfr)