Without birthright citizenship, the only way to become a US citizen is to go through the same naturalization process immigrants must to obtain citizenship – which is hardly the most robust and efficient immigration system in the world – or inherit it from your parents who are US citizens. But therein lies the kicker; how did your parents get their citizenship? If it was because they were born here, their citizenship wouldn’t count any more under President Trump, and if your parents weren’t citizens, there’s no way you could have inherited it from them. The same applies to your grandparents, and great grandparents. You’d have to track family history back all the way until you found an ancestor that underwent a legal naturalization process, i.e. an immigrant, to prove that you are a US citizen. If your great, great, great grandfather came to America illegally, sorry, but someone has to pay for that, and it’s an ever increasing Republican ideology that the sins of the father should be paid for by the son, and in this case the grandson, great grandson, or whichever generation is still alive.
