Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner for president in 2024, rolled out a new policy pledge on Tuesday in which he promised if elected he would sign an executive order on day one of his second term in office effectively ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens and so-called “birth tourism.”

The policy proposal, contained in one of his Agenda 47 videos his campaign released, was obtained exclusively by Breitbart News ahead of its public release.

“As part of my plan to secure the border, on day one of my new term in office I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the correct interpretation of the law going forward the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump says in the slightly more than three-minute-long video.

[This prompts a few questions. If this is so easy to do by EO, why didn’t Trump do it on any of the 1,461 days of his presidency, let alone Day One in 2017? Second, just how would an EO work in regard to the US Constitution? He can perhaps order agencies to adopt an “interpretation,” but the language of the 14th Amendment and the Citizenship Clause is very clear on this point: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Federal courts will strike down any attempt to “interpret” away birthright citizenship, and perhaps in precedent-setting ways that will negate any potential for Congress to approach it in statute. — Ed]