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Claim: “No country in the world has birthright citizenship,” an Instagram user asserts.
Verdict: False. Findings show Mexico and many other countries around the world have birthright citizenship.
Full Text
Following his January 20 inauguration as the 47th President of the United States of America, Donald Trump issued many executive orders.
One of them is seeking to overturn birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship, also called “jus soli,” is a governmental policy under which any child born within a country’s borders or territory is automatically granted citizenship in that country—even if their parents are not citizens.
Like others, this order has been met without sharp criticism from Americans and non-Americans.
Just a day after the President’s order, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) reported that 18 states in the U.S. sued the Trump administration over the executive order seeking to overturn citizenship by birth.
Reacting to the news agency’s Instagram publication, Raymond020954, an Instagram user urged people to stop the criticism because “no country in the world has birthright citizenship.”
A screenshot of Raymond’s comment.
The CBS publication received 8,578k reactions and 772 comments, while Raymond’s comment received 108 reactions as of this report.
Given the different reactions that Raymond’s comment sparked, DUBAWA verified the
truthfulness of the claim.
Verification
DUBAWA searched The World Facts-book, a U.S. government publication, and found that Brazil, Cuba, The Gambia, Jamaica, Mexico, Mauritius, and Pakistan are countries with birthright citizenship, apart from the United States of America.
For example, here and here list countries that have birthright citizenship.
Conclusion
The Instagram user’s claim that no country has birthright citizenship is false.
