Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship
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Wendy Cervantes, a director at The Center for Law and Social Policy, said the birthright ruling was important for several reasons, primarily because it was “fundamentally about how our country treats babies in the earliest days of life.”
She notes it has long ensured all children born in the U.S. have some degree of equal footing, including access to health care and other protections they need from the start.
“If the Trump administration had been allowed to restrict birthright citizenship, it would have been yet another way to expand their deportation machine, adding newborns to the list of deportation targets,” Cervantes said.
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