President Donald Trump spoke to the press from the Oval Office Thursday ahead of an expected ruling from the United States Supreme Court concerning the Administration’s proposed changes to birthright citizenship.
“It would be a disgrace if the Supreme Court of the United States allows that to happen,” the president said in the Oval Office Thursday, referring to the possibility of the Court allowing the nation’s current birthright citizenship policy to stand.
“Remember what I said, 20 to 25% of the people coming into our country will come in through birthright citizenship,” said President Trump. “They’ll become citizens through birthright citizenship, and it will cost us numbers that are, I don’t even think they’re doable.”
This past fall, the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to uphold the Executive Order issued on Inauguration Day redefining birthright citizenship.
Although the Court considered a case earlier this year stemming from challenges to the Administration’s new policy, the Justices were not tasked with weighing in on the merits of the discussion.
Instead, they were asked at the time to define the bounds of authority for federal judges, determining whether or not they have the power to issue nationwide, or universal, injunctions.
The 6-3 ruling released in June found that federal judges “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted [them]” when issuing universal injunctions.
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President Trump’s Executive Order — titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship — was signed just hours after the inauguration and states that “the privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift.”
“The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” Trump wrote. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”
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Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment states: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Currently, the United States grants full citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil regardless of whether their parents are in the country legally or illegally.
Incorporated into the Constitution in the wake of the Civil War, the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to ensure that all formerly enslaved people would be granted citizenship.
By ratifying this amendment, the nation overturned the infamous 1857 Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford wherein the Justices decided that enslaved people were not United States citizens.
Setting up the modern interpretation of this clause was the Supreme Court ruling in the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark wherein the citizenship status Wong Kim Ark — who was born in the San Francisco to parents who were Chinese citizens “living and working “permanently domiciled” in America — was called into question.
Under the Naturalization Act of 1802, Ark’s parents were ineligible to become naturalized citizens, as Congress continued to limit eligibility for naturalization to “free white persons
.”
The 6-2 majority opinion in the Wong Kim Ark case, authored by Justice Horace Gray, declared that, under the Fourteenth Amendment, Ark was a United States citizen.
Trump’s Executive Order establishes that “it is the policy of the United States” that citizenship shall not be granted to those whose “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and [whose] father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
Birthright citizenship would also not be extended to those whose “mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and [whose] father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
This clause of the Executive Order would likely impact the ability of children born to those with pending asylum claims, as well as those who are in the United States on temporary work, student or tourist visas, to obtain birthright citizenship.
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Every judge who has reviewed the provision to date has found it to be a violation of the 14th Amendment, but the Trump Administration is hoping that the Supreme Court will come to a different conclusion upon review.
A ruling from the Supreme Court is expected at some point in the coming weeks.
According to a Fox News poll, 69 percent of voters support birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants, up from 45 percent in 2006 when Fox News first asked the question.
Note to President Trump :
Ban Chinese Pregnant Women from flying into the country .
Ban pregnant Mexicans from walking over the border ,
Call them Potential Hanta Virus carriers . Ebola . Monkey Pox . It’s a National Health Emergency .
Come up with something . ANYTHING .
Executive order .
Let the democrats sue you …..WHO cares except American Patriots ?
Insanity is all around us .