Donald Trump reopens bid to end birthright citizenship and warns migrant 'scam' will 'destroy America'

Donald Trump has reopened his bid to end birthright citizenship in the US, issuing a dire warning of how the "scam" will "destroy America".

On Wednesday, the US President confirmed he would be asking the Supreme Court to rehear the case in which it ruled against his executive order to curb the practice.

Judges ruled 6-3 against his motion to to restrict birthright citizenship for children of migrants in the in yet another blow to Mr Trump's controversial immigration reforms.

President Trump gave the order last year on his first day back in office as part of a tranche of policies to crack down on legal and illegal immigration.

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The order said that 30 days after its effective date, babies born in the US to illegal migrants were not entitled to citizenship documents.

Mr Trump announced his long-shot bid to force through the measure on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday evening and issued a warning to the American people.

The US President wrote: "Signs and billboards are being put up all over our southern border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with 'Deliveries starting at $4000'.

"Likewise, similar signs going up all over our country. Billions of dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with citizenship going to anyone willing to pay.

"It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow. Not sustainable.

"NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!! AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong.

"I will be asking for a rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY."

He added: "This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don’t change their absolutely insane decision."

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However, Mr Trump's demand is likely to be blocked, as the Supreme Court rarely rehears cases of its rulings, with the last granted in 1965.

The last time it reversed a decision it had made in an argued case was 1956.

Ahead of the latest ruling, some experts had estimated that the US President's order could impact the legal status of as many as 250,000 babies born each year and could require the families of millions more to prove the citizenship status of their newborns.

Critics of Mr Trump's bid to restrict birthright citizenship argue the Supreme Court already had settled the question of birthright citizenship in an 1898 case called United States v Wong Kim Ark.

The case recognised the 14th Amendment grants citizenship by birth on US soil, including to the children of foreign nationals.

The provision at issue, known as the Citizenship Clause, states: "All persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

However, the Trump administration has asserted that the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" means that being born in the United States is not enough for citizenship.

Last year, the US President insisted that birthright citizenship "was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them".

"But the drug cartels love it! We are, for the sake of being politically correct, a STUPID country but, in actuality, this is the exact opposite of being politically correct, and it is yet another point that leads to the dysfunction of America," he wrote.

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