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US Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

US Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6‑3 to uphold birthright citizenship, rejecting President Trump’s executive order that sought to limit citizenship for children born in the United States to non‑citizen parents. The decision affirmed the interpretation of the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to virtually all individuals born on U.S. soil, marking a significant setback to Trump’s immigration agenda.

Donald Trump
Republican Party
1. My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries.
2. The privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift.
3. The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary!
4. No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship. They will ‌have my Complete and Total Support!
Eric Schmitt
Republican Party
1. If we can't fix it with ordinary legislation, then we must do what the Constitution commands in moments of national crisis: We must amend the Constitution and restore American citizenship. We must again put 'We the People' first. … This ruling is the final alarm bell.
2. The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship decision is wrong, dangerous, and disastrous for American sovereignty and the American people.
3. When the Court mistakenly interprets a statute, Congress can amend the statute through bicameralism and presentment.
Lindsay Graham
Republican Party
1. While I'm disappointed in the Court's decision regarding birthright citizenship, I am determined more than ever to put an end to this major magnet for illegal immigration and birth tourism.
2. I will continue to push to fix this major pull factor for birth tourism and illegal immigration into the US.
US Supreme Court
1. In clear words and in manifest intent, [it] includes the children born, within the territory of the United States, of all other persons, of whatever race or color.
2. The 14th Amendment affirms the ancient and fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the territory.
US Department of Justice
1. Actors seeking to exploit loopholes to obtain automatic citizenship for their children automatic citizenship for their children pose a national security threat and will be brought to justice.
John Roberts
US Supreme Court
1. The Government offers a smorgasbord of formulations: 'primary allegiance,' 'sufficient allegiance,' 'full allegiance,' 'requisite allegiance' … What all these formulations supposedly share is that they turn on domicile – the place of one's permanent home. At some point before the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the argument goes, it became 'deeply rooted' in this country that '[d]omicile is the key concept that creates allegiance'.
2. Yet the word 'domicile' appears just twice in the discussion of the relevant provision of the Civil Rights Act. And it appears in only one speech from the Citizenship Clause debates — as part of an explanation of why state citizenship is distinct from national citizenship under the Constitution.
3. If Congress intended to hinge citizenship on each individual's domicile — a question that 'is sometimes a matter of great difficulty to decide' — it is reasonable to expect there would have been at least some discussion of the topic.
4. Not surprisingly, then, in the 128 years since, we have repeatedly understood the rule of Wong Kim Ark to guarantee citizenship to all children born in the United States and subject to its power. We see no reason to depart from that view today.
5. What the Court held in Wong Kim Ark was simple: the Citizenship Clause incorporated the common law and granted citizenship to nearly all children born in the United States.
6. If Congress intended to limit American citizenship to the children of those domiciled in the United States, nothing in the succinct language of the citizenship clause conveyed that design.
7. Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land,'
8. Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are 'subject to the jurisdiction' of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause.
Samuel Alito
US Supreme Court
1. This is one of the most important decisions in the history of the court, and in my judgment, the court has made a serious mistake.
Clarence Thomas
US Supreme Court
1. The Court today takes the extraordinary step of holding facially unconstitutional the President's Order excluding from citizenship the children of foreign temporary visitors and illegal aliens.
2. I am not sure that today's opinion will stand the test of time.
3. The same could not be said for the children of foreign temporary visitors. Foreign temporary visitors ... lacked similar bonds to this country.
4. Blacks were entitled to citizenship because they were Americans. They had no other homeland, owed no allegiance to any foreign power.

US Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

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