Ramaswamy vows to end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and their children

Entrepreneur and Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy vowed Wednesday that he would end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and their children if elected president.

"I would end birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants and the children of illegal immigrants," Ramaswamy told the crew of Timcast IRL. "What does it mean for everybody else, I mean, we're all citizens, whether sixth-generation or first-generation in my case."

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"If you're born in this country, you have citizenship if you're born under legal circumstances."

When an individual illegally enters the United States and has a child, it is unfair to countless law-abiding citizens, according to Ramaswamy.

When asked if he would deport infants, he said an entire family would be deported as a unit.

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"You take the whole family unit," according to Ramaswamy. "I'm strongly opposed to policies that would separate kids from their parents. I think that was discussed even in the Trump administration otherwise as a tactic for deterring people from coming."

"As a pro-family leader, I will not adopt such a policy, but we will send back the family unit as such, and I think that if you came to this country illegally, the right answer is you have to be sent back to your country of origin, come back through the same legal means, getting in the same line, that everybody whose coming into this country legally is already pursuing."