President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship for illegal aliens, tied to the invasion on the border, tees up a major Supreme Court case that could become a historic Trump win that fixes a growing, decades-long problem.
Several of the executive orders (EOs) and presidential actions on Inauguration Day — January 20 — dealt with immigration and the southern border. Trump declared that what is happening on the border is an invasion of the United States and issued a proclamation banning the entry of those illegal aliens into the country.
And in EO 14160 — dealing with birthright citizenship — President Trump also ordered his government not to issue citizenship documents to children of women who are illegal aliens or in the U.S. on a temporary visa and whose fathers are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPRs, also called green card holders).
Democrats and their allies wasted no time filing at least ten federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of that EO. One challenge was brought by eighteen Democrat state attorneys general in Massachusetts. Another four states filed in the state of Washington.
These leftists claim that everyone born in the United States is automatically a U.S. citizen. But that is not the law, and it has never been the law. […]
— Read More: www.breitbart.com