(The Post Millennial)—The Trump administration has taken new action to enact the executive order Trump signed to change the precedent on birthright citizenship in the US. The administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow some of the order to go into effect while the lawsuits are playing out in the lower courts.
The administration has asked the high court justices to allow a portion of the order to go into effect and to “narrow court orders entered by district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington that blocked the order,” per the AP.
President Donald Trump ran on a promise of revoking the concept of birthright citizenship and was sued by many states claiming that the order was in violation of the 14th Amendment. The order was temporarily blocked by a lower court after several states brought suit.
The suit stated that “The Plaintiff States will also suffer irreparable harm because thousands of children will be born within their borders but denied full participation and opportunity in American society. Absent a temporary restraining order, children born in the Plaintiff States will soon be rendered undocumented, subject to removal or detention, and many stateless.”
The order reads: “It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
