Washington DC [US], June 30 (ANI): The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order and upheld birth right citizenship for all children born in the United States.
American broadcaster CNN shared the court document, which mentioned that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are entitled to automatic US citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Court also relied on its earlier ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which established that children born in the US to foreign parents are entitled to birthright citizenship.
This comes as earlier in May, Trump wrote that a “negative ruling on Birthright Citizenship, on top of the recent Supreme Court Tariff catastrophe, is not Economically sustainable for the United States of America!”, the New York Times reported.
It further reported that three of the court’s conservatives — Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh joined the court’s majority to strike down the executive order, but he said he based his decision on a federal law, not on the Constitution.
The New York Times further underlined that civil rights groups on Tuesday rejoiced as the Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration’s executive order.
Deborah Fleischaker, a former Homeland Security official now with the Latino group UnidosUS, called it “a huge relief.”
CNN reported that one of the main arguments that President Donald Trump’s attorneys had raised was that the 14th Amendment required people to be domiciled — or with the intention of remaining — in the United States before being entitled to birthright citizenship.
On the hearing, the American broadcaster reported that Chief Justice John Roberts said, “Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Roberts wrote for the court. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
The major blow to Trump comes as one of the key issues on which he ran for the 2nd term was towards ending “birth tourism” with Trump 2.0 coming down heavily on both legal and illegal immigration. (ANI)
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