The U.S. government has again appealed on the unresolved issue of "birth citizenship", requesting the Supreme Court to overturn the previous judgment of the district court and abolish the legal practice of foreign immigrant offspring "born to be American citizens".
As part of the current anti-immigration policy agenda, President Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his return to the White House, banning all illegal Americans and children born with temporary visas from automatically obtaining U.S. citizenship.This allegedly "unconstitutional" order quickly sparked resistance across the United States, as of June, up to 22 states filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, and several local courts took countermeasures against the executive order, banning its implementation.
U.S. Department of Justice formally filed a complaint with the Supreme Court on Monday to attempt to overturn a previous judgment of the district court.Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Saul stated in the appeal filing that the district court granted U.S. citizenship to “hundreds of thousands of unqualified people” in the absence of legal grounds and “undermined U.S. border security.”
The district court found that Trump’s executive order violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which explicitly stipulates that “everyone born or naturalized in the U.S. and under its jurisdiction is a U.S. citizen”.But the U.S. government’s appeal document emphasized that temporary U.S. residents and illegal immigrants are not covered by “U.S. jurisdiction” and therefore their children are not entitled to citizenship.
According to the U.S. Political News Network, the Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling in June next year, and the outcome will be significant for both the U.S. midterm elections and the current government’s anti-immigration political agenda. The U.S. Washington Post cited legal experts as saying that the Trump administration’s “word game” can’t withstand strict crackdown, because illegal residents face arrest, prosecution or expulsion, so strictly they are all “under U.S. jurisdiction”.
Trump has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to intervene for his controversial policies since his return to the White House, while the Supreme Court, which currently holds absolute supremacy over conservatives, has largely every time made rulings in favor of the government, especially the policy related to restricting foreign immigration.