Twitter goes in on Perez Hilton for backing Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship policy

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Gossip blogger Perez Hilton is receiving some backlash from fans after making statements that although he isn’t a fan of Donald Trump, he does supports his threats to end birthright citizenship in the United States.

Earlier in the week, Axios reported that President Trump intended to “sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil”

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And while experts, journalists, and the general public debated the merits, legalities and repercussions of such an unprecedented move, Hilton chimed in and told his social media followers that he did not believe U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, often called “anchor babies,” should be granted with birthright citizenship.

“I don’t agree with Donald Trump on many things, but I DO think that if a child is born in America to parents who are here illegally that they should not be granted automatic citizenship,” he said. “And I say this as a liberal and Latina!”

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Followers were quick to point out the hypocrisy of Hilton, who was born in Miami as an anchor baby himself.

Born Mario Lavandeiro, Hilton is actually the son of immigrants from Cuba. When his family arrived in America,  the US government put them on the path of citizenship through a policy that allowed Cubans become permanent residents only a year after their arrival. Even as immigration laws tightened, Cubans received this gift of protection and stability, which helped many people start their lives here. This is a unique experience as most immigrants at the time came to the U.S. trying to distance themselves from situations of poverty, violence, oppression in their native lands.

After his initial statements went viral for all the wrong reasons, Hilton released a follow up video to further clarify his views.

“Everybody who is here now, I think all of those children and their families should stay here,” he said. “Going forward, I would like a policy or policies that will discourage illegal immigration… And I am not of the school of thought that I have to disagree with everything that Donald Trump says.”

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