Trump ended the long-standing birthright citizenship provision on Monday by signing an executive order at the White House.
Following his decision to remove automatic citizenship for children born in the US to parents who are temporarily or illegally in the country, immigration advocates have filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump.
Shortly after the order was signed, immigration supporters quickly filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire on Monday night, according to a Bloomberg story.
This came after Trump issued an executive order at the White House on Monday to terminate the long-standing birthright citizenship provision.
The directive defies almost a century of US policy and court interpretations of the Constitution and is scheduled to go into effect in 30 days.
Trump reaffirmed his commitment to the contentious policy shift at a briefing on Monday.
“Children of illegal aliens born in the United States will not be automatically granted citizenship by the federal government.” Additionally, we will improve the screening and vetting of illegal aliens,” he declared.
Trump’s Agenda47 policy platform has included ending birthright citizenship a key component, as the campaign pledged to amend the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Citizenship should be granted “only to those both born in AND’subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States,” the campaign emphasized.
Some conservative legal scholars support a narrower interpretation of the Constitution, which the Justice Department will have to persuade judges to embrace in order to defend the program.
The 14th Amendment, which was enacted in 1868 to extend citizenship to former slaves, may be interpreted differently as a result of the legal challenge. “Everyone born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, is a citizen of the United States and of the State in which they reside,” according to Section 1.
The American Immigration Council claims that despite multiple challenges over the years, the Supreme Court has continuously upheld birthright citizenship for children born in the United States, even though the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” normally excludes children of foreign diplomats.
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