President Trump signed an executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, a move met with fierce opposition. The order claims children born in the US to undocumented immigrants may not be granted automatic citizenship. Constitutional experts and legal scholars argue that Trump's interpretation of the 14th Amendment is flawed and that the order likely faces a drawn-out legal challenge.
President Donald Trump signed a bevy of executive order s within hours of taking the oath of office on Monday — including one that attempts tofrom a coalition of attorneys general who say the order is “blatantly unconstitutional and quite frankly, un-American.” There will almost certainly be a drawn-out legal battle over who can be considered a U.S. citizen.
This practice has been in place for a long time. The Citizenship Clause was added to the 14th Amendment in 1868, and the notion of birthright citizenship is supported by theThe executive order declares that any child born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants 30 days from Jan.
By the Trump administration’s logic, children of undocumented immigrants are not citizens “subject to the jurisdiction” of American laws and cannot be protected by the 14th Amendment.The Trump administration’s interpretation of the “jurisdiction” line is off, according to more than a century of case law, constitutional experts and existing government policy.
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