India, Jan. 25 -- Were the Executive Order restrictions on birth-right citizenship not removed before the 2026 midterm polls, not just Indian-Americans but Hispanic Americans as well would shift from Republicans to the Democrats.

It is evident that some of the Executive Orders passed by President Trump are designed to satiate the hunger for complete curbs on immigration legal and illegal of the ultra-MAGA elements in his support base. There has been widespread comment about the curbs even on the rights of legal residents of the United States in matters relating to citizenship given to their children born in the US. Such a right is implicit in the amendment to the US Constitution that was passed in 1868, after the Civil War. Unfortunately...