“And what you’ll be doing in an election year is calling into question the citizenship of 10 million American people or more,” Barr said. “I won’t make it retroactive,” Trump said. The order would only apply to future children of illegal immigrants. “But you can’t say you won’t make it retroactive,” Barr said. “You’re basically saying that they’re not citizens. Okay? The premise would be that all these other people in the past are not citizens. So how are you going to give them comfort at that point?”

