US Prez urges court to uphold his mandate disqualifying children of illegal immigrants as Americans
Trump’s executive order affects generations of Americans. PICS/GETTY IMAGES
President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
The Justice Department’s petition has been shared with lawyers challenging the order, but is not yet docketed at the Supreme Court. “The lower court’s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security,” Solicitor General John Sauer wrote, “Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people.”
Solicitor general John Sauer
Cody Wofsy, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who represents children affected by Trump’s restrictions, said, “This executive order is illegal and no amount of manoeuvring from the administration is going to change that. We will continue to ensure that no baby’s citizenship is ever stripped away by this cruel and senseless order.”
Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term in the White House that would upend more than 125 years of understanding that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment confers citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.
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