Birthright citizenship allows for a child born in the U.S. to a parent living in the country undocumented or temporarily to automatically become a citizen at birth.
signed an executive order hours after being sworn in that could lead to children born in the country no longer being deemed as citizens regardless of their parents’ status.Birthright citizenship allows for anyone born in the U.S. to be considered a citizen, regardless of whether their parents are also citizens of the country or they’re on a tourist visa or even living there illegally.Legal experts say attempts to restrict that are likely to fail if challenged in court.
The president’s executive order, however, questions that line and whether it extends citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. automatically., which would take effect 30 days from Tuesday, people are excluded from automatic citizenship if their mothers were not legally in the U.S. and fathers were not citizens or lawful permanent residents, or if their mothers were in the country legally but on a temporary basis and their father was not a citizen or legal permanent resident.
But unlike in the U.S., Chantal Desloges, senior lawyer at Desloges Law Group, says reaction to the issue has not been always as prominent, except in the case of“ where some people come to Canada as visitors, for example, with the sole purpose of simply having their child here in Canada to be born on Canadian soil and therefore be a Canadian citizen,” Desloges noted.While opposition to birthright citizenship has not been as vocal in Canada as in the U.S.
While she said it likely wouldn’t proceed in court, Frost said if he appoints new Supreme Court justices who agree with restricting or limiting the guarantee, that could change.
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