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America’s highest court will consider whether President Trump can bring an end to birthright citizenship—one of his most radical proposals to reform the nation’s immigration policies.
The President issued an Executive Order to end birthright citizenship just hours into his second term.
Judges blocked the President’s Order almost immediately. They claimed it violates the Constitution, federal statute and Supreme Court precedent.
Trump has fought the decisions in the Supreme Court. Over the summer, the Court ruled that lower courts were exceeding their powers by issuing so-called “nationwide injunctions,” but did not rule on the substance of the matter—whether birthright citizenship could be overturned.
As The Guardian reports, “The justices on Friday announced they would take up a justice department appeal of a lower court’s ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order telling US government agencies not to recognize citizenship of children born in the US if neither parent is an American citizen or legal permanent resident.
“The lower court ruled that Trump’s policy violated the constitution’s 14th amendment and a federal law codifying birthright citizenship rights in a class-action lawsuit by parents and children whose citizenship is threatened by the directive.
“The case, Trump v Barbara, will be argued in the spring, with a ruling expected by early summer. The Barbara case comes from New Hampshire, where a federal judge in July blocked the citizenship order in a class-action lawsuit led by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of children and their parents who would be affected by Trump’s order.”
President Trump’s target is the 14th Amendment, ratified after the Civil War to ensure citizenship for freed black Americans.
The amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
President Trump argues, however, that the meaning and spirit of the Amendment have been falsified and extended to groups that were not intended to be covered. As a result, it has become a powerful driver of illegal immigration.
“The citizenship clause of the [14th] Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children – not to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens,” John Sauer, the US solicitor general, wrote in urging the high court to consider the case.
If the President wins, tens of thousands of babies a year would be denied the benefits of American citizenship.
The US is one of just 30 or so countries that extend citizenship to babies born on its soil.
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