The Supreme Court upheld equal citizenship for all born on American soil Tuesday, in a landmark victory for the country’s immigrant communities.
The long-awaited decision in Trump v. Barbara delivers a huge blow to the immigration agenda of President Donald Trump, who issued an executive order challenging birthright citizenship on his first day in office. The court rejected the administration’s argument that children whose parents aren’t citizens or permanent legal residents are subject to the 14th Amendment.
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“Citizenship, then and now,” Chief Justice John Roberts concluded, “was the right to have rights–to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”
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