Migration advocates claim that “millions” of U.S.-born children, youths, and adults could have their citizenship cancelled if the Supreme Court allows President Donald Trump’s Executive Order barring citizenship for the new children of illegal migrants to stand.
“Thousands of American babies [born after January 20, 2025] will immediately lose their citizenship,” ACLU Legal Director Cecillia Wang told the nine justices on Wednesday morning. “And if you credit the government’s theory, the citizenship of millions of Americans past, present … could be called into question.”
The claim was promptly shot down by Trump’s lawyer in the courtroom, Solicitor General John Sauer. “This [January 2025] Executive Order [from Trump, denying citizenship to the children of illegals] applies only prospectively [in the future], and we ask the court to rule only prospectively,” he said.
“The logic of your position, if accepted, is that the next President, this President, or the next
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