US President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday that prohibits children of mothers who come to the US to give birth from automatically becoming citizens, marking yet latest move to restrict birthright citizenship.
In an effort to restrict birthright citizenship, US President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday that targeted people who, according to him, enter the nation under the pretense of tourism with the intention of giving birth.”They’ve made a joke out of birthright citizenship,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office.
In a late June decision that Trump called “very unfortunate,” the US Supreme Court rejected his prior attempt to limit the constitutionally protected freedom.It’s really unfair, therefore we’re making changes,” he stated.
One of Trump’s closest advisors, Stephen Miller, stated that the order also seeks to deny birthright citizenship to “large categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments” and offspring of members of “foreign terrorist organizations.”
The change “ensures that large numbers of people who wrongly (would) be getting birthright citizenship will no longer be eligible for those benefits,” Miller stated.
Last year, the president issued another executive order stating that children born to parents who entered the country illegally or on temporary visas would not immediately become citizens of the United States.
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Lower courts stopped that action, holding that almost everyone born in the United States is an American citizen under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Chief Justice John Roberts, together with two other conservative-leaning judges and the three liberal-leaning justices, wrote the majority decision that the Supreme Court agreed with.
The 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
It does not apply to anyone who are not under US jurisdiction, such as children of foreign diplomats. Additionally, visas may already be refused under US law if a consular officer determines that the applicant’s major reason for visiting the nation is to give birth.
The Trump administration made the fruitless claim that the 14th Amendment, which was ratified following the Civil War of 1861–1865, only pertains to the citizenship rights of former slaves and not the offspring of undocumented immigrants or tourists.
The foundation of Trump’s earlier executive order was that anyone in the country illegally or with a visa is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the nation and is hence not eligible for automatic citizenship.
The president’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship are a component of his broader campaign to restrict immigration, which also calls for the deportation of citizens of over a dozen nations and the expulsion of millions of undocumented migrants.
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