Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday vowed to eliminate birthright citizenship if elected president, adopting a key position of his closest rival, former President Donald Trump.Trump announced in late May that he would challenge the existing legal basis for granting citizenship to anyone born inside the country’s borders, contending that the practice is based on a “historical myth and a willful misinterpretation of the law by the open borders advocates.”
DeSantis, for his part, echoed that sentiment and contended the practice had encouraged illegal immigration.
“Dangling the prize of citizenship to the future offspring of illegal immigrant …