[International] Trump's Birthright Citizenship Restriction Suffers Another Setback as US Judge Blocks New Executive Order
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A U.S. federal district judge on the 2nd blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order. This order was issued by Trump after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his measures to restrict birthright citizenship, attempting to limit the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship.
Federal District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, at the request of immigration rights advocates, issued a temporary restraining order. These advocates had won a ruling from Boardman last year blocking the Trump administration from implementing a 2025 executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in "Barbara v. Trump" focused on the clause granting birthright citizenship to those born in the United States and "subject to its jurisdiction."
Following the Supreme Court's ruling, Trump signed a new executive order on August 6th targeting so-called "birth tourism," where women travel to the U.S. to give birth, allowing their children to automatically obtain U.S. citizenship.
After Trump signed the executive order, lawyers representing infants who would be stripped of citizenship by Trump's 2025 executive order filed a class-action lawsuit, requesting Boardman to block the enforcement of Trump's latest executive order to ensure their clients' citizenship continues to be respected.
Boardman, appointed by Democratic President Joe Biden, agreed to the request, stating that the latest order "almost certainly violates the Constitution for the simple reason that it applies to a class that has already been certified in a class action, and the Supreme Court has already ruled in Barbara that these children in the class action are citizens from birth."
"The court must once again preliminarily enjoin the President's latest attempt to strip them of their citizenship."
Boardman's order prohibits federal agencies, including the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Social Security, from taking any action to interfere with, deny, or fail to recognize the citizenship of individuals covered by the class action.
The White House has not yet responded immediately.
Plaintiffs include the immigrant rights group CASA and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, who had persuaded Boardman last year to be one of the four district judges who blocked Trump's executive order before the Supreme Court's ruling.
Department of Justice lawyers argued that the restraining order did not apply to this case because the scope of Trump's order was more limited than the order the plaintiffs had originally sued against.
They also claimed the lawsuit was premature, as federal agencies had not yet released official guidance detailing how to enforce the president's order, which is expected on the 5th. The government argued that any legal challenges should be filed after that.
Reuters reported on the 1st that the U.S. Department of Justice had drafted guidance requiring parents to prove their own citizenship or immigration status when applying for passports for their children, in order to enforce the executive order. (Editor: Zhong Jinlong)
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