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People will come from many, many countries to give birth, and they pay a lot of money to get here,
This is about ensuring the citizenship, a cornerstone of our national identity, is protected, respected, and aligned with the principles on which this country was built,
Babin said during a press conference Thursday If the Framers of the 14th Amendment would have known how abused the notion of birthright citizenship would be, which was not even a notion in the 1860s, they would have been absolutely stunned,
Biggs said at the press conference In the past two days, I have spoken to 15 to 20 couples regarding this,
We were counting on our child being born here...We've been waiting for our green cards for six years. This was the only way to ensure stability for our family. We are terrified of the uncertainty,
an Indian woman, who is due to give birth in early March said Complications include underdeveloped lungs, feeding problems, low birth weight, neurological complications, and more,
Currently, when someone is born in the United States they immediately become a citizen, regardless of their country of origin or their parents’ citizenship status
J.L. Partners polled 1,009 registered voters ahead of Trump's inauguration asked them If you just poll the idea of birthright citizenship, voters nod it through,
A woman who is seven months pregnant came with her husband to schedule an early delivery. She’s due in March,
We sacrificed so much to come here. Now, it feels like the door is closing on us,
said the H-1B holder, who is still a few months away from parenthood My answer is that it is inappropriate for a sitting judge or for a nominee to a judicial position to offer opinions on constitutional questions that are percolating at that time and may well come before that judge or that nominee. It may turn out to be a very simple question,
Denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it's also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is. This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the U.S. who are denied full rights as Americans."
Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said in a statement It may turn out to be a complicated question. Without studying the question, I don't know and I wouldn't—and even if I had an initial impression, I wouldn't voice it here. I would have to go through the whole judicial decision-making process before reaching a conclusion that I would be willing to express."
The 14th Amendment is clear. Anyone born in the United States is a citizen. This is consistent with Supreme Court precedent as well,
The executive order tries to define what it means to be 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States, but it goes against prior case law. It is the role of the courts to interpret the law, not the executive branch,
It’s always an uncertainty when you’re dealing with the court,
Karla McKanders, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, told The Recast As lawyers, maybe we are a little bit overly optimistic,
I think that’s why Trump and his campaign telegraphed that this was going to be a Day One issue,
I don’t think the courts will let them say that that means different things in two different contexts,
The privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States.”
True to his word, President Donald Trump, with the stroke of his pen, upended more than a century of legal precedent with this declaration
