President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a move to cut off a longstanding constitutional right that could leave hundreds of thousands of Texas children without legal status. The move has been questioned by legal scholars and it has already drawn lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union and a coalition of Democratic-led states.

Beainy was born in Boston and moved to Lebanon when he was 6. He and his family returned to the U.S. in 2019, according to a 2022 article by the Houston Chronicle. One year after moving to the U.S., he opened Trump Burger, in part because he thought Trump improved the economy.