GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.
“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.
Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.
It goes by factors of 10
So it would be a bit over 3 orders of magnitude above Canada.
With that said, it doesn’t matter anyway because it would require a constitutional amendment to change, which is nigh on impossible in today’s political climate on any topic.
That’s actually not how orders of magnitude work, the definition is a change by a factor of 10, which means that if a number is n orders of magnitude larger than another it’s 10^n times larger. 2 orders of magnitude = 100 times larger, 3 orders of magnitude is 1000 times larger, etc.
The exact order of magnitude of a ratio is log base 10. So log10(3/0.1)=1.4771 orders of magnitude.
3 orders of magnitude greater is 10 × 10 × 10 = 1000x larger… which refers to 100~999% compared to 0.1%.