Hours after taking oath as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump signed an e🍰xecutive order ending birthrಌight citizenship for immigrants.
The order titled - "PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP" - does not come as a surprise given Trump's hard-line stance on immigration. The order states, anyone🅘 born in the United States after 30 days from the date of this order, will no longer be eligible for birthright citizenship.
Minutes after taking oath as POTUS for a seco♏nd time, Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States.
"We are going to send millions and millions a🐬nd millions of criminal aliens back," Trump said, as he received applause from supporters and left many world leaders and Democrats in sho♔ck.
During his MAGA rallies, Trump stated he would bring an end to 🍌birthright citizenship as part of his plan to tackle immigraꩵtion and "make America safe again."
US Citizenship, A 'Priceless, Profound Gift'
The executive order to end birthright citizenship, one of the first 100🧜 signed after President Trump assumed office, leaves tꦦhe lives of babies and vulnerable immigrants in danger.
As per the order issued by Trump, the "privilege" of United States citizensh✃ip does not exten𓃲d to people born in the country:
1 - "When that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth."
2 - "When that person’s mother’s presence in the United States at the time of said person’s birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth."
The government order also states that no departme👍nt under the 🔴US government can issue citizenship-related documents in case of the above-mentioned clauses.
The Trump administration plans to enforce the order by🌠 withholding passports and other documents from people it d🍰eems ineligible for citizenship.
The signing of the order also means that children born to noncitizen p𒁏arents on temporary visas will no longer automatically receive ✱citizenship.
Civil Rights Organisations Sue Trump Administration
Hours after the order was signed, immigrant rights advocates and several civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
Ameri𝓰can Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of New Hampshire, ACLU of Maine, ACLU of Massachusetts, Asian Law Caucus, State Democracy Defenders Fund, and Legal Defense Fund filed the lawsuit against the administration on behalf of organisations with members whose babies born on US soil will now be denied citizenship.
"Denying citizenship to US-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is. This order seeks to repeat one of the gravest errors in American history, by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the US who are denied full rights as Americans. We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged. The Trump administration's overreach is so egregious thatꦰ we are confident we will ultimately prevail,” said Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the .
Birthright Citizenship And The US
Birthright citizenship in the United States was established under the 14th Amendment which was passed by Congress in 1868.
"All people born or naturalized in the Unite🗹d States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside," reads the clause.
This order came♓ after the Supreme Court ruled that people of African descent who had been enslaved in the US were not citizens, ahead of the civil war, which ultimately lead to the⛦ end of slavery.
Despite the 2025 executive order, Trump's move to end🐼 birthright citizenship faces many legal hurdles.
Can Trump really end Birthright Citizenship?
Legal experts across the country believe that ending birthright citizenshiꦅp would not 💎be as simple as just issuing an order. Even if the case reaches the Supreme Court, conservative justices outnumber liberal ones by 6-3.
Speaking to BBC, Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional expert and University of Virginia Law School professor, said, “He's doing something that's going to upset a lot of people, but ultimately this will b𒈔e decided by the courts.”
“Tꦬhis is not something he can decide on his own,” he added.
While Hiroshi Motomura, an immigration law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, told The Washington Post, “Yes, they could overturn it, but that would not only overturn precedent but you’d have to effectively change the constitution to something that it was never meant t𒊎o be.”
The Conversation interviewed scholar Jean L🔜antz Reisz, co-director of the University of Southern California’s Immigration Clinic who said, “asylum is a big part of US law and only a Congressional act can end it.”
She says that Trump’s view of “shutting the border” essentially means preventing people from seeking asylum in the US which they have a right to under the♊ US law. “Up until now, if a migrant comes to the US border and says they fear returning to their home country, they are supposed to be given a so-called ‘credible fear interview’. That would be suspended.”
