Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

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Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.

By Mark Joseph Stern, July 30, 20254:07 PM

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Ever since Donald Trump vowed to end birthright citizenship for the children of many immigrants, one question has loomed: How could the executive branch possibly implement such a sweeping rollback of constitutional rights? The United States has granted birthright citizenship to virtually all children born on its soil since 1868, when the 14th Amendment enshrined that guarantee into law. What would it look like for the government to abruptly change course, adopting a radically different system of citizenship through presidential decree? How could the Trump administration identify the roughly 150,000 babies born each year who would no longer receive their fundamental right of citizenship? What penalty would it impose on these infants, some of whom would be rendered literally stateless?

For months, federal courts blocked the Trump administration from developing any such plans, finding the executive order unconstitutional from top to bottom. In June, however, the Supreme Court expressly permitted the government to begin “developing and issuing public guidance about the executive’s plans to implement” Trump’s order. Acting on that decision, an immigration agency released the first stage of its “implementation plan” last Friday. It shocks the conscience. In dry bureaucratic language, the memo outlines a plan to revoke citizenship from the children of both immigrants who lack permanent legal status and many lawful residents, including visa holders, Dreamers, and asylum-seekers.

Read online: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/07/trump-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ice-maternity-ward.html – some behind paywall

#2025 #America #BirthrightCitizenship #Citizenship #DonaldTrump #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Resistance #RuleOfLaw #Science #Slate #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

Boston judge once again upholds his ban on regime attempt to ignore the Constitution and deny citizenship to babies born here to immigrant parents
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-judge-once-again-upholds-his-ban-regime-attempt-ignore
#lawsuits #14thAmendment #BirthrightCitizenship

Lawyers for the #Trump admin had argued Sorokin should narrow the reach of his earlier ruling granting a preliminary injunction, arguing it should be “tailored to the States’ purported financial injuries.”

“The record does not support a finding that any narrower option would feasibly & adequately protect the plaintiffs from the injuries they have shown they are likely to suffer,” Sorokin wrote.

#law #BirthrightCitizenship #AbuseOfPower

A federal judge on Friday could deal another blow to #Trump's attempts to limit #BirthrightCitizenship, even though a #SCOTUS decision last month made it more difficult for lower courts to block White House directives.

A group of Democratic attorneys general from 18 states & DC will urge US District Judge Leo Sorokin at a hearing in Boston at 10AM ET Friday to maintain an injunction he imposed in Feb that blocked Trump's executive order nationwide.

#law #Constitution
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-weighs-putting-new-block-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order-2025-07-18/

White House Responds After Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order

The White House issued a defiant statement on Friday after a judge blocked President Donald Trump‘s executive order…
#Europe #UnitedStates #birthrightcitizenship #DonaldTrump #executiveorder #theWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration
https://www.europesays.com/2276100/

Norman Eisen: Contrarians to the Rescue on Birthright Citizenship!

#BirthrightCitizenship #law #classaction #immigration
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/contrarians-to-the-rescue-on-birthright

A small bit of good news on #BirthrightCitizenship, at least until #SCOTUS upends the Constitution again: https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-7-10-2025?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

The #DOJ has argued that #Trump's order conforms with the #Constitution & has asked Laplante to find that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a #class.

#SCOTUS’ ruling did not address the legal merits of Trump's order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hardline #immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.

The 3 judges who issued #NationwideInjunctions found that #Trump's directive likely violates #citizenship language in the US #Constitution's #14thAmendment. The amendment states that all "persons born or naturalized in the United States, & subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States & of the state wherein they reside."

Judge blocks #Trump #BirthrightCitizenship order despite #SCOTUS ruling [because they are hella wrong]

A federal judge on Thursday has again barred the Trump admin from enforcing his #ExecutiveOrder limiting birthright citizenship nationwide after the #US #SupremeCourt restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using #NationwideInjunctions.

#law #immigration #Constitution #judiciary
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-weigh-blocking-trump-birthright-citizenship-despite-supreme-court-ruling-2025-07-10/