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ACLU challenges Trump’s new birthright citizenship order
The American Civil Liberties Union and migrant rights groups have filed a legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s latest executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The court filing asks a New Hampshire federal…
The Story in Brief
The American Civil Liberties Union and migrant rights groups have filed a legal challenge against President Donald Trump’s latest executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The court filing asks a New Hampshire federal judge to declare the order illegal, arguing it violates an existing injunction that blocks the administration from denying citizenship to children born in the US to non-citizen parents.
Trump signed two executive orders last week targeting children of certain foreign diplomats and people entering the US for so-called birth tourism. The challenge comes months after the Supreme Court rejected his earlier, broader attempt to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented migrants. Lawyers argue the new orders try to bypass that ruling.
The Indian Opinion
Trump claims his order stops exploitation, but the 14th Amendment’s birthright guarantee is settled law. Opponents cry executive overreach, but the courts, not protests, will settle it. The real test is whether a single federal judge will extend the earlier injunction against these narrower categories. If yes, Trump’s strategy of chipping away at citizenship faces another dead end.
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