US judge blocks Trump’s latest effort to limit birthright citizenship
Al Jazeera • • nation
Key Points:
- A federal judge in Maryland, Deborah Boardman, has blocked President Trump's new executive order aimed at restricting birthright citizenship, citing the Supreme Court's prior ruling that his previous attempt was unconstitutional.
- The August 6 order targeted "birth tourism" and sought to deny citizenship to children of certain foreign nationals, including those involved in commercial transactions for citizenship or labeled as "alien enemies."
- Judge Boardman referenced the Supreme Court's June decision in Barbara v. Trump, which affirmed that children born in the U.S. are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment, making Trump's new order "almost certainly unconstitutional."
- Birthright citizenship grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil, with narrow exceptions, and has been upheld in landmark cases such as US v. Wong Kim Ark.
- Despite the Supreme Court defeat, Trump and his supporters continue efforts to challenge birthright citizenship protections, while immigrant rights groups have successfully sued to block these executive orders.
