U.S. President Donald Trump holds up an executive order commuting sentences for people convicted of Jan. 6 offences in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 20, 2025.
The U.S. president stunned immigration watchers with a Day 1 order that went way further than expected. It includes families legally in the U.S. on work visas, and could render some kids stateless. An epic legal battle lies ahead.Trump challenged generations-old citizenship rights among a series of executive orders he signed on his first day in office Monday.
In the meantime, it means uncertainty for people, and what could be a years-long, epic legal battle all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Wong Kim Ark's case set the precedent for U.S. birthright citizenship. He was born and raised in San Francisco. But he was barred re-entry into the U.S. in 1895. Trump knows legal challenges are coming. He acknowledged as much while signing the order in the Oval Office, on Monday evening.
This would risk their children being stateless, she said. Pregnant women living in the U.S. would need to not only examine American law, but also the law in their own country, and decide where to deliver. One couple came to the U.S. on tourist visas in 2023, it states, and have applied for asylum; they have a child due in a month.
The 1868 amendment clarified that U.S. citizenship belonged to everyone born in the United States and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."A U.S. National Guardsman stands atop a shipping container and looks across the border towards Mexico from Eagle Pass, Tex., on Wednesday.
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