The recent push to restrict birthright citizenship has reached the Supreme Court. The current administration is seeking permission to partially enforce new restrictions while legal battles continue. The order, signed shortly after the beginning of the second term, aims to deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the country illegally after a specific d...
A recent decision by a federal appeals court has sparked a potential showdown at the Supreme Court over birthright citizenship. The 9th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals chose to uphold a temporary block on an executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship for certain immigrant children. This order was issued by the Trump administration, which argued that it was...
Birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants has been a hot topic lately. Recently, a judge in New Hampshire made a big move. He temporarily halted a presidential order that aimed to change this policy. This isn't the first time such an order has been blocked. Judges in Seattle and Maryland had already done the same thing earlier. The judge in ...
In a case happening in Maryland, there was a judge's rulingsays that children of individuals who are visiting briefly from out of the country or those here uncontendedly could not obtain citizenship any longer. that is controverse to a big length of more or similar to 2 1/2 centuries of U. S. history. The White House decided In early months of 2021, that kids born i...
Lets dive into this. Its been less than two weeks into Donald Trump's second term, and the criticism is already at a high point. People are saying Trump's first order about birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and illegal. They are calling him names like a nativist or even a racist. But lets think about what the 14th Amendment really says. Th...
When Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship, expectant moms like Monica were shocked. Monica, who fled political persecution in Venezuela, found out she was pregnant after years of hoping to start a family. She and her husband had finally found stability in the US, but Trump's order threatened to leave their child born stateless. ...
Imagine trying to help someone and ending up in jail. That's what happened to Phoebe Dong. She and her husband ran a business, USA Happy Baby, that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U. S. to have their babies. The idea was that these babies would automatically become American citizens. A judge in California sentenced Phoebe to more than three years in priso...
Think back to the 1990s, when a bill similar to President Trump's recent executive order on birthright citizenship was floating around Congress. This bill aimed to stop children born in the U. S. to non-legal residents from automatically becoming citizens. Such bills have been proposed before, but they never gained traction. One of the witnesses against this bill wa...
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, aiming to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, has sparked a legal battle. One of the first tests for this order took place in a Seattle courtroom. A federal judge, John C. Coughenour, temporarily blocked the order and labeled it "blatantly unconstitutional. " The concept of birthright citizen...
President Trump's recent executive order on birthright citizenship has sparked concern among immigrant groups. The order aims to limit citizenship to children born in the U. S. to parents who are citizens or permanent residents. But what does this mean for asylum-seekers? Imagine a Venezuelan couple seeking asylum in the U. S. They have a baby here, but can't regist...