In a stunning development, the US Supreme Court agreed to decide the Constitutionality of President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
In September President Trump asked the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship.
Democrat attorneys general sued the Trump Administration to block the birthright citizenship executive order.
Several federal judges have blocked President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan-appointed judge in Seattle, previously issued a nationwide temporary injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
In February, US District Judge for the District of Massachusetts Leo Sorokin, and Obama appointee, blocked Trump’s order and said in a 31-page ruling that loss of birthright citizenship, even if temporary, and later restored can likely leave ‘permanent scars.’
According to President Trump’s order, the 14th Amendment is being misinterpreted by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies.’
“It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth,” Trump’s order stated.
Trump’s order argued the 14th Amendment has always excluded babies born to people in the US illegally.
“[The] Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,”” Trump’s order said.
“Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text,” the order stated.
CBS News reported:
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide the legality of President Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, which automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.
Issued at the start of his second term, the plan is the first from Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda that the Supreme Court will evaluate on the legal merits. The justices have been asked to intervene in several challenges to Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, but did so at early stages of the cases and through emergency requests for relief.
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