US judge blocks Trump’s latest effort to limit birthright citizenship
Summary
A federal judge in Maryland blocked President Donald Trump’s new executive order that aimed to limit birthright citizenship, following a Supreme Court ruling that said a similar prior attempt was unconstitutional. The judge said the new order likely violates the Constitution because the Supreme Court already decided that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.Key Facts
- Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction against Trump’s new birthright citizenship order from August 6.
- The new order targeted “birth tourism” and sought to deny citizenship to certain children of foreign nationals in specific groups.
- The judge cited the Supreme Court’s June decision in Barbara v Trump, which upheld birthright citizenship under the Constitution.
- The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the Fourteenth Amendment protects automatic citizenship for those born in the United States, with exceptions like diplomats’ children.
- Birthright citizenship means anyone born in the U.S. automatically becomes a citizen.
- President Trump campaigned on changing birthright citizenship, saying children of temporary or undocumented immigrants are not under U.S. jurisdiction.
- Immigrant rights groups challenged Trump’s order in court and previously blocked his first executive order on this issue.
- Judge Boardman called Trump’s latest attempt “unprecedented” and unlikely to be constitutional.
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